diff --git a/apps/syndie/java/src/net/i2p/syndie/BlogManager.java b/apps/syndie/java/src/net/i2p/syndie/BlogManager.java
index d250ea903..9822f6b22 100644
--- a/apps/syndie/java/src/net/i2p/syndie/BlogManager.java
+++ b/apps/syndie/java/src/net/i2p/syndie/BlogManager.java
@@ -364,8 +364,8 @@ public class BlogManager {
         return ( (isSingle != null) && (Boolean.valueOf(isSingle).booleanValue()) );
     }
 
-    public String getDefaultProxyHost() { return _context.getProperty("syndie.defaultProxyHost", ""); }
-    public String getDefaultProxyPort() { return _context.getProperty("syndie.defaultProxyPort", ""); }
+    public String getDefaultProxyHost() { return _context.getProperty("syndie.defaultProxyHost", "localhost"); }
+    public String getDefaultProxyPort() { return _context.getProperty("syndie.defaultProxyPort", "4444"); }
     public String[] getUpdateArchives() { return _context.getProperty("syndie.updateArchives", "").split(","); }
     public boolean getImportAddresses() { return _context.getProperty("syndie.importAddresses", "false").equals("true"); }
     public int getUpdateDelay() { 
diff --git a/apps/syndie/java/src/net/i2p/syndie/Sucker.java b/apps/syndie/java/src/net/i2p/syndie/Sucker.java
index 3d0f25a17..6574132a8 100644
--- a/apps/syndie/java/src/net/i2p/syndie/Sucker.java
+++ b/apps/syndie/java/src/net/i2p/syndie/Sucker.java
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ public class Sucker {
         } catch (IOException e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
         }
-        proxyPort="4444";
-        proxyHost="localhost";
+        proxyPort = BlogManager.instance().getDefaultProxyPort();
+        proxyHost = BlogManager.instance().getDefaultProxyHost();
 
         bm = BlogManager.instance();
         Hash blogHash = new Hash();
@@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ public class Sucker {
                 messageNumber=bm.getNextBlogEntry(user);
             }
 
+            _log.debug("message number: " + messageNumber);
+            
             // Create historyFile if missing
             historyFile = new File(historyPath);
             if (!historyFile.exists())
@@ -195,13 +197,19 @@ public class Sucker {
                                     numRetries, fetched.getAbsolutePath(), urlToLoad);
             SuckerFetchListener lsnr = new SuckerFetchListener();
             get.addStatusListener(lsnr);
+            
+            _log.debug("fetching [" + urlToLoad + "] / " + shouldProxy + "/" + proxyHost + "/" + proxyHost);
+            
             get.fetch();
+            _log.debug("fetched: " + get.getNotModified() + "/" + get.getETag());
             boolean ok = lsnr.waitForSuccess();
             if (!ok) {
+                _log.debug("success? " + ok);
                 System.err.println("Unable to retrieve the url after " + numRetries + " tries.");
                 fetched.delete();
                 return;
             }
+            _log.debug("fetched successfully? " + ok);
             if(get.getNotModified()) {
                 debugLog("not modified, saving network bytes from useless fetch");
                 fetched.delete();
@@ -214,6 +222,8 @@ public class Sucker {
 
             List entries = feed.getEntries();
 
+            _log.debug("entries: " + entries.size());
+            
             FileOutputStream hos = new FileOutputStream(historyFile, true);
 
             // Process list backwards to get syndie to display the 
@@ -223,6 +233,9 @@ public class Sucker {
                 
                 attachmentCounter=0;
                 
+                if (_log.shouldLog(Log.DEBUG))
+                    _log.debug("Syndicate entry: " + e.getLink());
+                
                 String messageId = convertToSml(e);
                 if (messageId!=null) {
                     hos.write(messageId.getBytes());
@@ -234,6 +247,8 @@ public class Sucker {
                 FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(lastIdFile);
                 fos.write(("" + messageNumber).getBytes());
             }
+            
+            _log.debug("done fetching");
         } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
         } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
diff --git a/apps/syndie/java/src/net/i2p/syndie/web/ImportFeedServlet.java b/apps/syndie/java/src/net/i2p/syndie/web/ImportFeedServlet.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f3342b56b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/syndie/java/src/net/i2p/syndie/web/ImportFeedServlet.java
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+package net.i2p.syndie.web;
+
+import java.io.*;
+import java.util.*;
+
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+import javax.servlet.ServletException;
+
+import net.i2p.I2PAppContext;
+import net.i2p.client.naming.*;
+import net.i2p.data.*;
+import net.i2p.syndie.*;
+import net.i2p.syndie.data.*;
+import net.i2p.syndie.sml.*;
+
+/**
+ * Schedule the import of atom/rss feeds
+ *
+ * <p><h3>todo:</h3>
+ * <p>caching (eepget should do it)
+ * <p>enclosures support (requires cvs rome)
+ * <p>syndie.sucker.minHistory/maxHistory used to roll over the history file?
+ * <p>configurable update period
+ *
+ */
+public class ImportFeedServlet extends BaseServlet { 
+    protected String getTitle() { return "Syndie :: Import feed"; }
+    
+    protected void renderServletDetails(User user, HttpServletRequest req, PrintWriter out, ThreadIndex index, 
+                                        int threadOffset, BlogURI visibleEntry, Archive archive) throws IOException {
+ 
+        if (!BlogManager.instance().authorizeRemote(user)) {
+            out.write("<tr><td colspan=\"3\"><span class=\"b_rssMsgErr\">You are not authorized for remote access.</span></td></tr>\n");
+        } else {
+            out.write("<tr><td colspan=\"3\">");
+          
+            String url=req.getParameter("url");
+            if (url != null) 
+                url = url.trim();
+            String blog=req.getParameter("blog");
+            if (blog != null)
+                blog=blog.trim();
+            String tagPrefix = req.getParameter("tagprefix");
+            if (tagPrefix != null)
+                tagPrefix=tagPrefix.trim();
+            String action = req.getParameter("action");
+            if ( (action != null) && ("Add".equals(action)) ) {
+                if(url==null || blog==null || tagPrefix==null) {
+                    out.write("<span class=\"b_rssImportMsgErr\">Please fill in all fields</span><br />\n");
+                } else {
+                    boolean ret = BlogManager.instance().addRssFeed(url, blog, tagPrefix);
+                    if (!ret) {
+                        out.write("<span class=\"b_rssImportMsgErr\">addRssFeed failure.</span>");
+                    } else {
+                        out.write("<span class=\"b_rssImportMsgOk\">RSS feed added.</span>");
+                    }
+                }
+            } else if ( (action != null) && ("Change".equals(action)) ) {
+                String lastUrl=req.getParameter("lasturl");
+                String lastBlog=req.getParameter("lastblog");
+                String lastTagPrefix=req.getParameter("lasttagprefix");
+              
+                if (url == null || blog == null || tagPrefix == null || 
+                    lastUrl == null || lastBlog == null || lastTagPrefix == null) {
+                    out.write("<span class=\"b_rssImportMsgErr\">error, some fields were empty.</span><br />");
+                } else {
+                    boolean ret = BlogManager.instance().deleteRssFeed(lastUrl,lastBlog,lastTagPrefix);
+                    if (!ret) {
+                        out.write("<span class=\"b_rssImportMsgErr\">Could not delete while attempting to change.</span>");
+                    } else {
+                        ret = BlogManager.instance().addRssFeed(url,blog,tagPrefix);
+                        if (!ret) {
+                            out.write("<span class=\"b_rssImportMsgErr\">Could not add while attempting to change.</span>");
+                        } else {
+                            out.write("<span class=\"b_rssImportMsgOk\">Ok, changed successfully.</span>");
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            } else if ( (action != null) && ("Delete".equals(action)) ) {
+                out.write("<span class=\"b_rssImportMsgErr\">Delete some thing</span><br />");
+                if (url == null || blog == null || tagPrefix == null) {
+                    out.write("<span class=\"b_rssImportMsgErr\">error, some fields were empty.</span><br />");
+                } else {
+                    boolean ret = BlogManager.instance().deleteRssFeed(url,blog,tagPrefix);
+                    if (!ret) {
+                        out.write("<span class=\"b_rssImportMsgErr\">error, could not delete.</span>");
+                    } else {
+                        out.write("<span class=\"b_rssImportMsgOk\">ok, deleted successfully.</span>");
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+          
+            String blogStr = user.getBlogStr();
+            if (blogStr == null)
+                blogStr="";
+    
+            out.write("<p>Here you can add RSS feeds that will be periodically polled and added to your syndie. </p>");
+            out.write("<form action=\"" + req.getRequestURI() + "\" method=\"POST\">");
+            writeAuthActionFields(out);
+            out.write("RSS URL. (e.g. http://tracker.postman.i2p/rss.php)<br />\n");
+            out.write("<em><span class=\"b_rssImportField\">url:</span></em> <input class=\"b_rssImportField\" type=\"text\" size=\"50\" name=\"url\" /><br />\n");
+            out.write("Blog hash to which the RSS entries will get posted, defaults to the one you're logged in to.<br />\n");
+            out.write("<em><span class=\"b_rssImportField\">blog:</span></em> <input class=\"b_rssImportField\" type=\"text\" value=\"");
+            out.write(blogStr);
+            out.write("\" size=\"20\" name=\"blog\" /><br />\n");
+            out.write("This will be prepended to any tags that the RSS feed contains. (e.g. feed.tracker)<br />\n");
+            out.write("<em><span class=\"b_rssImportField\">tagprefix:</span></em>\n");
+            out.write("<input class=\"b_rssImportField\" type=\"text\" value=\"feed\" size=\"20\" name=\"tagprefix\" /><br />\n");
+            out.write("<input class=\"b_rssImportSubmit\" type=\"submit\" name=\"action\" value=\"Add\" />\n");
+            out.write("<input class=\"b_rssImportCancel\" type=\"reset\" value=\"Cancel\" />\n");
+            out.write("</form>\n");
+
+            List feedList = BlogManager.instance().getRssFeeds();
+            if (feedList.size()>0) {
+                out.write("<hr /><h3>Subscriptions:</h3><br />\n");
+                out.write("<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"b_rss\">\n");
+                out.write("<tr class=\"b_rssHeader\">\n");
+                out.write("<td class=\"b_rssHeader\"><em class=\"b_rssHeader\">Url</em></td>\n");
+                out.write("<td class=\"b_rssHeader\"><em class=\"b_rssHeader\">Blog</em></td>\n");
+                out.write("<td class=\"b_rssHeader\"><em class=\"b_rssHeader\">TagPrefix</em></td>\n");
+                out.write("<td class=\"b_rssHeader\">&nbsp;</td></tr>\n");
+
+                Iterator iter = feedList.iterator();
+                while (iter.hasNext()) {
+                    String fields[] = (String[])iter.next();
+                    url = fields[0];
+                    blog = fields[1];
+                    tagPrefix = fields[2];
+                    StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(128);
+            
+                    buf.append("<tr class=\"b_rssDetail\"><form action=\"" + req.getRequestURI() + "\" method=\"POST\">");
+                    writeAuthActionFields(out);
+                    buf.append("<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"lasturl\" value=\"").append(url).append("\" />");
+                    buf.append("<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"lastblog\" value=\"").append(blog).append("\" />");
+                    buf.append("<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"lasttagprefix\" value=\"").append(tagPrefix).append("\" />");
+
+                    buf.append("<td class=\"b_rssUrl\"><input class=\"b_rssUrl\" type=\"text\" size=\"50\" name=\"url\" value=\"").append(url).append("\" /></td>");
+                    buf.append("<td class=\"b_rssBlog\"><input class=\"b_rssBlog\" type=\"text\" size=\"20\" name=\"blog\" value=\"").append(blog).append("\" /></td>");
+                    buf.append("<td class=\"b_rssPrefix\"><input class=\"b_rssPrefix\" type=\"text\" size=\"20\" name=\"tagprefix\" value=\"").append(tagPrefix).append("\" /></td>");
+                    buf.append("<td class=\"b_rssDetail\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">");
+
+                    buf.append("<input class=\"b_rssChange\" type=\"submit\" name=\"action\" value=\"Change\" />");
+                    buf.append("<input class=\"b_rssDelete\" type=\"submit\" name=\"action\" value=\"Delete\" />");
+                  
+                    buf.append("</td></form></tr>");
+                    out.write(buf.toString());
+                    buf.setLength(0);
+                }
+              
+                out.write("</table>\n");
+            } // end iterating over feeds
+          
+            out.write("</td></tr>\n");
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/apps/syndie/jsp/rssimport.jsp b/apps/syndie/jsp/rssimport.jsp
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ac999fc2..000000000
--- a/apps/syndie/jsp/rssimport.jsp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,143 +0,0 @@
-<%@page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8" import="net.i2p.data.Base64, net.i2p.syndie.web.*, net.i2p.syndie.sml.*, net.i2p.syndie.data.*, net.i2p.syndie.*, org.mortbay.servlet.MultiPartRequest, java.util.*, java.io.*" %><%
-request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");  %><jsp:useBean scope="session" class="net.i2p.syndie.User" id="user" 
-/><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 TRANSITIONAL//EN" "http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
-<html>
-<head>
-<title>SyndieMedia rss import configuration</title>
-<link href="style.jsp" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" >
-</head>
-<body>
-<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
-<tr class="b_toplogo"><td colspan="5" valign="top" align="left" class="b_toplogo"><jsp:include page="_toplogo.jsp" /></td></tr>
-<tr><td valign="top" align="left" rowspan="2" class="b_leftnav"><jsp:include page="_leftnav.jsp" /></td>
-    <jsp:include page="_topnav.jsp" />
-    <td valign="top" align="left" rowspan="2" class="b_rightnav"><jsp:include page="_rightnav.jsp" /></td></tr>
-<tr class="b_content"><td valign="top" align="left" colspan="3" class="b_content"><%
-
-BlogManager bm = BlogManager.instance();
-if (!user.getAuthenticated()) {
-    %><span class="b_rssMsgErr">Please log in.</span><% 
-}
-else if(!bm.authorizeRemote(user)) { 
-    %><span class="b_rssMsgErr">You are not authorized for remote access.</span><% 
-} else {
-    String url=request.getParameter("url");
-    if(url!=null) url=url.trim();
-    String blog=request.getParameter("blog");
-    if(blog!=null) blog=blog.trim();
-    String tagPrefix=request.getParameter("tagprefix");
-    if(tagPrefix!=null) tagPrefix=tagPrefix.trim();
-    String action = request.getParameter("action");
-    if ( (action != null) && ("Add".equals(action)) ) {
-        if(url==null || blog==null || tagPrefix==null) {
-            %><span class="b_rssImportMsgErr">Please fill in all fields</span><br /><%
-        } else {
-            boolean ret=bm.addRssFeed(url,blog,tagPrefix);
-	    if(!ret) {
-                %><span class="b_rssImportMsgErr">addRssFeed failure.</span><% 
-            } else {
-                %><span class="b_rssImportMsgOk">RSS feed added.</span><% 
-            }
-        }
-    } else if ( (action != null) && ("Change".equals(action)) ) {
-        String lastUrl=request.getParameter("lasturl");
-        String lastBlog=request.getParameter("lastblog");
-        String lastTagPrefix=request.getParameter("lasttagprefix");
-        if(url==null || blog==null || tagPrefix==null || lastUrl==null || lastBlog==null || lastTagPrefix==null) {
-            %><span class="b_rssImportMsgErr">error, some fields were empty.</span><br /><%
-        } else {
-            boolean ret=bm.deleteRssFeed(lastUrl,lastBlog,lastTagPrefix);
-            if(!ret) {
-                %><span class="b_rssImportMsgErr">Could not delete while attempting to change.</span><% 
-            } else {
-                ret=bm.addRssFeed(url,blog,tagPrefix);
-                if(!ret) {
-                    %><span class="b_rssImportMsgErr">Could not add while attempting to change.</span><% 
-                } else {
-                    %><span class="b_rssImportMsgOk">Ok, changed successfully.</span><% 
-                }
-            }
-        }       
-    } else if ( (action != null) && ("Delete".equals(action)) ) {
-        %><span class="b_rssImportMsgErr">Delete some thing</span><br /><%
-        if(url==null || blog==null || tagPrefix==null) {
-            %><span class="b_rssImportMsgErr">error, some fields were empty.</span><br /><%
-        } else {
-            boolean ret=bm.instance().deleteRssFeed(url,blog,tagPrefix);
-            if(!ret) {
-                %><span class="b_rssImportMsgErr">error, could not delete.</span><% 
-            } else {
-                %><span class="b_rssImportMsgOk">ok, deleted successfully.</span><% 
-            }
-        }       
-    }
-    String blogStr=user.getBlogStr();
-    if(blogStr==null)
-        blogStr="";
-    
-    ///////////////////////////////////////////////
-%>
-<p>Here you can add RSS feeds that will be periodically polled and added to your syndie. </p>
-<form action="rssimport.jsp" method="POST"> 
-RSS URL. (e.g. http://tracker.postman.i2p/rss.php)<br />
-<em><span class="b_rssImportField">url:</span></em> <input class="b_rssImportField" type="text" size="50" name="url" /><br />
-Blog hash to which the RSS entries will get posted, defaults to the one you're logged in to.<br />
-<em><span class="b_rssImportField">blog:</span></em> <input class="b_rssImportField" type="text" <%="value=\""+blogStr+"\""%> size="20" name="blog" /><br />
-This will be prepended to any tags that the RSS feed contains. (e.g. feed.tracker)<br />
-<em><span class="b_rssImportField">tagprefix:</span></em> <input class="b_rssImportField" type="text" value="feed" size="20" name="tagprefix" /><br />
-<input class="b_rssImportSubmit" type="submit" name="action" value="Add" /> <input class="b_rssImportCancel" type="reset" value="Cancel" /></form>
-<%
-///////////////////////////////////////////////
-    List feedList = bm.getRssFeeds();
-    if(feedList.size()>0) {
-%>
-<hr /><h3>Subscriptions:</h3><br />
-<table border="0" width="100%" class="b_rss">
-<tr class="b_rssHeader">
-<td class="b_rssHeader"><em class="b_rssHeader">Url</em></td>
-<td class="b_rssHeader"><em class="b_rssHeader">Blog</em></td>
-<td class="b_rssHeader"><em class="b_rssHeader">TagPrefix</em></td>
-<td class="b_rssHeader">&nbsp;</td></tr>
-<%
-        Iterator iter = feedList.iterator();
-        while(iter.hasNext()) {
-            String fields[]=(String[])iter.next();
-            url=fields[0];
-            blog=fields[1];
-            tagPrefix=fields[2];
-            StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(128);
-            
-            buf.append("<tr class=\"b_rssDetail\"><form action=\"rssimport.jsp\" method=\"POST\">");
-            buf.append("<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"lasturl\" value=\"").append(url).append("\" />");
-            buf.append("<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"lastblog\" value=\"").append(blog).append("\" />");
-            buf.append("<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"lasttagprefix\" value=\"").append(tagPrefix).append("\" />");
-            
-            buf.append("<td class=\"b_rssUrl\"><input class=\"b_rssUrl\" type=\"text\" size=\"50\" name=\"url\" value=\"").append(url).append("\" /></td>");
-            buf.append("<td class=\"b_rssBlog\"><input class=\"b_rssBlog\" type=\"text\" size=\"20\" name=\"blog\" value=\"").append(blog).append("\" /></td>");
-            buf.append("<td class=\"b_rssPrefix\"><input class=\"b_rssPrefix\" type=\"text\" size=\"20\" name=\"tagprefix\" value=\"").append(tagPrefix).append("\" /></td>");
-            buf.append("<td class=\"b_rssDetail\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">");
-            
-            buf.append("<input class=\"b_rssChange\" type=\"submit\" name=\"action\" value=\"Change\" />");
-            buf.append("<input class=\"b_rssDelete\" type=\"submit\" name=\"action\" value=\"Delete\" />");
-            
-            buf.append("</td></form></tr>");
-            out.write(buf.toString());
-            buf.setLength(0);
-        }
-    }
-/*
-<p><h3>todo:</h3>
-<p>caching (eepget should do it)
-<p>enclosures support (requires cvs rome)
-<p>syndie.sucker.minHistory/maxHistory used to roll over the history file?
-<p>configurable update period
-*/
-%>
-</table>
-<hr />
-<% 
-} 
-%>
-</td></tr>
-</table>
-</body>
diff --git a/apps/syndie/jsp/web.xml b/apps/syndie/jsp/web.xml
index 22bb37ee1..60243877a 100644
--- a/apps/syndie/jsp/web.xml
+++ b/apps/syndie/jsp/web.xml
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@
      <servlet-class>net.i2p.syndie.web.SyndicateServlet</servlet-class>
     </servlet>
      
+    <servlet>
+     <servlet-name>net.i2p.syndie.web.ImportFeedServlet</servlet-name>
+     <servlet-class>net.i2p.syndie.web.ImportFeedServlet</servlet-class>
+    </servlet>
+     
     <servlet>
 	 <servlet-name>net.i2p.syndie.UpdaterServlet</servlet-name>
 	 <servlet-class>net.i2p.syndie.UpdaterServlet</servlet-class>
@@ -99,6 +104,10 @@
       <servlet-name>net.i2p.syndie.web.SyndicateServlet</servlet-name>
       <url-pattern>/syndicate.jsp</url-pattern>
     </servlet-mapping>
+    <servlet-mapping> 
+      <servlet-name>net.i2p.syndie.web.ImportFeedServlet</servlet-name>
+      <url-pattern>/importfeed.jsp</url-pattern>
+    </servlet-mapping>
     
     <session-config>
         <session-timeout>