Don't Poke Badgers
Free/Open Source Software from Joshua Cantara

RSS2Cisco

      This script will take RSS feeds and convert them to be displayed on Cisco's IP based phones such as the 7920, 7940 and 7960.

The current version is 2.0

Requirements:

This program requires:
  • Any webserver capable of running perl scripts
  • A Cisco IP phone
  • The RSS2Cisco script:  The perl script that runs server side.

Documentation

The Documentation:

Problems and Planned Upgrades

Problems:
  • Submit a Bug?
Planned Upgrades:
  • Submit a request?

Version History

Upgrades:
  • Version 2.0, Released May 11th, 2007. After lying dormant for years, rss2cisco has reawakened to a fresh rewrite using the Cisco::IPPhone module, as well as some improved character escaping.
  • Version 1.0, Released April 21st, 2005: Better handling of RSS feeds, support for a real XML parser (thanks to Brent DeShazer), support for large feeds that would not display on phone, proper escaping of HTML entities.
  • Version 0.6, Released January 6th, 2004: Thanks to Swen Veckes a CGI Param bug has been fixed.
  • Version 0.5, Released January 2nd, 2004: First Version.

Credits:

The Programmer: Joshua Cantara


Supporter:
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