Comments on: SSL/TLS RSS Challenge

By: Silas Hundt

Silas Hundt — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:18:58 +0000

Safari handles ‘em both. Of course stores pass and ID in keychain

By: Douglas

Douglas — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:00:29 +0000

KDE’s built-in RSS reader, Akregator, works fine for https based RSS feeds.
-dr

By: Brian R. Barker

Brian R. Barker — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:16:22 +0000

FeedDemon 1.5 prompts for userid and password, and shows two items in the feed.

By: Anthony B. Coates

Anthony B. Coates — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:58:02 +0000

Opera 8.0.2 works (for both this and the former test).

By: Tim Howland

Tim Howland — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 03:06:09 +0000

Looks like Sage (Firefox extension) works perfectly.

By: Dare Obasanjo

Dare Obasanjo — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:53:18 +0000

Works fine with RSS Bandit if you provide the username and password.

By: david

david — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:30:47 +0000

It was probably the problem John Cowan pointed out in his comments. I fixed those after Tim tried NNW.

By: Brent Simmons

Brent Simmons — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:48:57 +0000

I tried it in NetNewsWire — it prompted for a username and password, then it displayed the two items (“Sample Item” and “Second Sample Item.”)

I don’t know why it didn’t work for Tim, but I suspect a refresh might fix it.

By: Peter Lacey

Peter Lacey — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:36:02 +0000

Once again, NewsFire continues to rock. It prompted for username and password, and displayed the two entries just fine.

By: david

david — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:09:30 +0000

John (and Tim):

Thanks for the problem reports. I’ve fixed up the blog page (unfortunately, WordPress sometimes tries to fix what it considers to be problems with the markup), and the link should be OK now.

By: John Cowan

John Cowan — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:58:11 +0000

I patched the URI in Sage by hand, and it does work. I got a username/password demand from newmatica.com to load the feed, and another one from megginson.com to read the first item. So all is well, as would be expected.

Sage gave no visible indication that it was fetching secure content.

By: John Cowan

John Cowan — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:54:29 +0000

David: Direct reference doesn’t work either, and that’s because something in your publishing chain is awry.

After doing a View Source, it turns out that the relevant href attribute has backslashes before the quotation marks around its value. This causes Firefox to interpret the backslashes as if they were *inside* the quotation marks, making the URI a relative reference. The resolved absolute URI becomes http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/%5C%22https://www.newmatica.com/test/blog.rss%5C%22

So find out where the backslashes are coming from.

By: david

david — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 13:50:37 +0000

Tim: you can try opening the RSS file directly in Firefox or Safari to confirm that it’s there.

By: Tim Bray

Tim Bray — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 13:46:41 +0000

NetNewsWire prompts for username/password, says the password will be stored in the Keychain (the right thing to do on a mac), but then doesn’t show the feed contents. (You’re sure there’s something there David?)