Comments on: Password-Protected RSS Challenge

By: david

david — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:02:32 +0000

The error depends on the feed reader, but no matter what, it won’t be able to see the RSS and display the feed.

By: Shipra

Shipra — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:21:35 +0000

What is error which it gives ,if the RSS URL is Password Protected?

By: Shipra

Shipra — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:20:25 +0000

Syntax for passing User name and password in RSS Feed

By: Rain

Rain — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:49:11 +0000

Could someone tell me how to use this with livejournal and FeedDemon? I’m struggling with it like crazy and would really LOVE to know how to do it.

By: Sven

Sven — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:09:12 +0000

I tried 401 basic authentification on exclusively one episode in my RSS-Feed with enclosures. iTunes asks for Username/Password. Some iTunes clients (windows/6.02) now download this episode over and over again. Others don’t. Any ideas?

By: kelly

kelly — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:19:07 +0000

Works fine in Safari 2.0 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Just like accessing a protected domain on any webserver.

By: mortgages

mortgages — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:56:51 +0000

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By: yoavos

yoavos — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:56:50 +0000

Newsgator asks for credentials and then works well. The new google RSS reader reports an error..

By: Custom Reader

Custom Reader — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:48:35 +0000

Works fine in our brandable RSS reader

By: ryan king

ryan king — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:06:53 +0000

BTW, you're not the first person to do such a survey. You might want to take a look at this.

By: Ben Hyde

Ben Hyde — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:05:26 +0000

NetNewsWire Lite 2.0.1 also works, prompts for user name and password as it does the first fetch and squirrels them away on the MacOS keychain.

By: Quoderat » SSL/TLS RSS Challenge

Quoderat » SSL/TLS RSS Challenge — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 13:38:29 +0000

[…] Thanks to everyone who posted comments on my Password-Protected RSS challenge three weeks ago. It turned out that the vast majority of feed readers can handle HTTP basic authentication for feeds. […]

By: Douglas

Douglas — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:41:16 +0000

KDE’s built-in RSS reader, Akregator, works fine also.
-dr

By: Rijk

Rijk — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 14:20:13 +0000

Works fine in Opera as well.

By: Robert Sharl

Robert Sharl — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 09:32:58 +0000

Even better, iTunes handles the authentication too! It reports an error since there are no audio enclosures, but it seems to work.. If you’d like to add an audio enclosure to one of the entries we could see if it handles that ok.

Robert

By: Robert Sharl

Robert Sharl — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 09:30:11 +0000

Works fine in Safari 2.0 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Just like accessing a protected domain on any webserver.

Robert

By: Roland Kaufmann

Roland Kaufmann — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 19:39:54 +0000

SharpReader seems to handle the link fine (at least as of version 0.9.6.0), both with username and password encoded in the URL and with an interactive prompt.

By: ryan king

ryan king — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:03:03 +0000

NetNewsWire works.

By: Christof Hoeke

Christof Hoeke — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 09:27:52 +0000

Using Thunderbird as a simple RSS reader does work, it asks for user/pw and goes from there. I don’t know if the pw is saved in plaintext but reckon it saves it the same as other passwords too.

By: Peter Lacey

Peter Lacey — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 02:22:12 +0000

Works perfectly in NewsFire. Entries are readable too.