Tricks to aggregator with a local file?

After much trial and error, I came up with a mod to read a local xml into the aggregator. Not sure if this is the best way, but it seems to work. Here is what I did:

• Created a directory to put the rss file into.
• Modified common.inc to read a local file instead of over the net. Mods are in bold below
• Configured the feed. In the URL use local:// instead of http://

Let me know if this works for you.

..common.inc...

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function drupal_http_request($url, $headers = array(), $method = 'GET', $data = NULL, $retry = 3) {
$result = new StdClass();

// Parse the URL, and make sure we can handle the schema.
$uri = parse_url($url);
switch ($uri['scheme']) {
case 'http':
$port = isset($uri['port']) ? $uri['port'] : 80;
$host = $uri['host'] . ($port != 80 ? ':'. $port : '');
if (variable_get('proxy_name', '')) {
$fp = @fsockopen(variable_get('proxy_name', ''), variable_get('proxy_port', ''));
} else {
$fp = @fsockopen($uri['host'], $port, $errno, $errstr, 15);
}
break;
case 'https':
// Note: Only works for PHP 4.3 compiled with OpenSSL.
$port = isset($uri['port']) ? $uri['port'] : 443;
$host = $uri['host'] . ($port != 443 ? ':'. $port : '');
$fp = @fsockopen('ssl://'. $uri['host'], $port, $errno, $errstr, 20);
break;
case 'local':
// Added to support local RSS Feed File import
$fp = fopen('d:/rss_folder/' . $uri['host'], 'rb'); // Opens file for read only
// Fetch response.
$response = '';
while (!feof($fp) && $chunk = fread($fp, 1024)) {
$response .= $chunk;
}
fclose($fp);
// Parse response.
$result->data = $response;
$result->error = $text;
$result->code = '200';
return $result;
break;
// End Mods
default:
$result->error = 'invalid schema during https '. $uri['scheme'];
return $result;
}

mlcc2000