Comments on: SSL/TLS RSS Challenge https://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/ Open information and technology. Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:18:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Silas Hundt https://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/#comment-305 Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:18:58 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=62#comment-305 Safari handles ’em both. Of course stores pass and ID in keychain

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By: Douglas https://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/#comment-304 Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:00:29 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=62#comment-304 KDE’s built-in RSS reader, Akregator, works fine for https based RSS feeds.
-dr

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By: Brian R. Barker https://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/#comment-303 Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:16:22 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=62#comment-303 FeedDemon 1.5 prompts for userid and password, and shows two items in the feed.

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By: Anthony B. Coates https://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/#comment-302 Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:58:02 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=62#comment-302 Opera 8.0.2 works (for both this and the former test).

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By: Tim Howland https://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/#comment-301 Sun, 21 Aug 2005 03:06:09 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=62#comment-301 Looks like Sage (Firefox extension) works perfectly.

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By: Dare Obasanjo https://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/#comment-300 Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:53:18 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=62#comment-300 Works fine with RSS Bandit if you provide the username and password.

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By: david https://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/#comment-299 Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:30:47 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=62#comment-299 It was probably the problem John Cowan pointed out in his comments. I fixed those after Tim tried NNW.

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By: Brent Simmons https://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/#comment-298 Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:48:57 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=62#comment-298 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.

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By: Peter Lacey https://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/#comment-297 Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:36:02 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=62#comment-297 Once again, NewsFire continues to rock. It prompted for username and password, and displayed the two entries just fine.

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By: david https://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/#comment-296 Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:09:30 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=62#comment-296 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.

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By: John Cowan https://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/#comment-295 Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:58:11 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=62#comment-295 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.

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By: John Cowan https://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/#comment-294 Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:54:29 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=62#comment-294 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.

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By: david https://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/#comment-293 Sat, 20 Aug 2005 13:50:37 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=62#comment-293 Tim: you can try opening the RSS file directly in Firefox or Safari to confirm that it’s there.

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By: Tim Bray https://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/#comment-292 Sat, 20 Aug 2005 13:46:41 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=62#comment-292 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?)

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