Our Drupal installation is behind a firewall and we have a proxy server to easily get out. Problem is that there doesn't seem to be any proxy support in Feedapi. I had a brief look, and it turns out that simplepie doesn't support the use of a proxy without hacking it - not sure about common syndication parser.

We don't want to modify the firewall every time we need to add a feed, so use of the proxy is essential. My immediate approach would be to get something that CAN use the proxy (like curl) to download the files behind the firewall, then let feedapi pick them up from there.

Then I thought that should really be a core setting...and others seem to think the same - http://drupal.org/node/7881. But that wouldn't help feedapi with simplepie, I guess.

So what about a mini add-on module for feedapi to provide that functionality? I'll need to get this sorted for our case anyway, but maybe there is interest in this and input towards from others as well? Suggestions?