From e6837fb79bea646ea0a82f0ad0d7cfd7f184b7d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Edenhofer <me@edenhofer.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:50:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added support for http redirects.

---
 lib/rss.rb | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/rss.rb b/lib/rss.rb
index 838cbb6cb..a6ff21149 100644
--- a/lib/rss.rb
+++ b/lib/rss.rb
@@ -7,7 +7,14 @@ module RSS
     begin
       puts 'fetch rss...'
       response = Net::HTTP.get_response( URI.parse(url) )
+
+      # check if redirect is needed
+      if response.code.to_s == '301' || response.code.to_s == '302'
+        url = response.header['location']
+        response = Net::HTTP.get_response( URI.parse( url ) )
+      end
       if response.code.to_s != '200'
+        raise "Can't fetch '#{url}', http code: #{response.code.to_s}"
         return
       end
       rss     = SimpleRSS.parse response.body