#29 External Password Protected RSS

[irv24]

Can the RSS module be made to read password-protected RSS
feeds?

[Wendall Cada]

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I'll take a look at this for the next release. Thanks for
pointing this out. Can you give more information on how it
is password protected. Also, what clients read these feeds?

Wendall

[irv24]

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Thanks for taking an interest in my suggestion! What I had in mind
were LiveJournal RSS feeds, which generally hide friends-only posts.
When "?auth=digest" is added to the RSS URL, however, the friends-
only posts are visable upon entry of a valid username and password. A
standard username/password dialog pops up in the browser. Other
password-protected RSS feeds iinclude some Feedburner ones, which
can be made to be password protected. I believe the latter work the
same way. The password-protected feeds are compatible with RSS-
compatible browsers like Apple's Safari as well as dedicated Windows
readers such as FeedDemon and Shrook. Thanks again! It would be
very useful for a group's phpWebSite that aggregates members' blogs.