2250968 - EP: Timeout in RSS feed in custom Portal component

• You are attempting to display your corporate news feed to your external facing customers through an external facing portal.
• The RSS feed setup is based upon a custom portal component containing a par file based iView
• This retrieves the RSSFeeds URL from the JSP file
• It returns a Connection Timed out Error e.g.
  Connection time out: 00:00_00/00/15_0002_123456789 [EXCEPTION]
  java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
  at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:283)
  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)

• EP Release Independent
• SAP NetWeaver
• SAP Composition Environment  

Enterprise Portal 7.0, EP 7.0, Enterprise Portal 7.01, EP 7.01, Enterprise Portal 7.02, EP 7.02, Enterprise Portal 7.1, EP 7.1, Enterprise Portal 7.2, EP 7.2, Enterprise Portal 7.30, EP 7.30, Enterprise Portal 7.31, EP 7.31, Enterprise Portal 7.40, EP 7.4, Rich Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication, web feed formats, publish, corporate news feed, external facing ,customers, external facing portal, RSS feed setup, custom portal component, par file, iView, RSSFeeds URL, JSP file, Connection Timed out Error, System Administration, System Configuration, (external e.g. CRM) iView, proxy service, configured correctly, com.sap.portal.ivs.httpservice module, proxy server, property values, configure, application service, System Administration, System Configuration, Service Configuration, com.sap.portal.ivs.httpservice, application, specified proxy, server property values, firewalls, Override, JVM settings , KBA , EP-PIN-PRT , Portal Runtime , Problem