Rss feed operation timed out

Question

I am trying to load the digg favorites rss items. But getting error as operation timed out. Please let me know if anyone have solved this issue before.

    Public Shared Function HasRssItems() As Boolean
        Dim doc As New XmlDocument
        doc.Load("http://digg.com/users/Lovelezz/history/favorites.rss")
        Return doc.SelectNodes("rss/channel/item").Count > 0
   End Function

Answer 1

Chances are you are behind a proxy that isn't letting you through. You will have set up your proxy settings.

Here is an article that describes it.

Edit: updated article.