2249739 - EP: Timeout with RSS feeds from an external Portal

• You are attempting to display your corporate news feed to your external facing customers through an external facing portal.
• You encounter a timeout connection error:
  Connection time out: 00:00_15/01/15_0002_633751250 [EXCEPTION]
  java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
  at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
  at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:320)
  at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:186)
  at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:173)
  at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:471)
  at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:417)
  at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:139)
  at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:423) 
  at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:283)

• EP Release Independent
• SAP NetWeaver
• SAP Composition Environment 

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