Re: Authenticated web feed access standard?

"elijah wright" <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:46:58 -0400
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if they can rig things up to support standard web auth via a
username/password box... then...

the format:

http://username:password@feedhost/feedurl/

should work just fine.

[I'm using this with rss2email to yank updates out of a copy of pmwiki;
sadly, google reader doesn't seem to support that sort of feed format.]

--e


On 8/20/07, Steven Clift <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   Is there a standard that defines how news aggregators should request
> access to web feeds behind a login/password?
>
> Our few private groups - http://forums.e-democracy.org - generate web
> feeds which may be read by default browser-based feed readers and
> there is no problem to display them if someone stays logged in via the
> browser.
>
> However, I'd like to have the developer of the open source GroupServer
> - http://groupserver.org - tool explore giving authenticated access to
> Bloglines and other users of aggregators that supposedly support this
> kind of access.
>
> Steven Clift
> E-Democracy.Org
>
>  
>

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            <p><br>if they can rig things up to support standard web auth via a username/password box... then...<br><br>the format:<br><br><a href="http://username:password@feedhost/feedurl/">http://username:<wbr>password@<wbr>feedhost/<wbr>feedurl/</a>
<br><br>should work just fine.<br><br>[I&#39;m using this with rss2email to yank updates out of a copy of pmwiki; sadly, google reader doesn&#39;t seem to support that sort of feed format.]<br><br>--e<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 8/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Clift</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]">slc@publicus.<wbr>net</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">









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            <p>Is there a standard that defines how news aggregators should request<br>
access to web feeds behind a login/password?<br>
<br>
Our few private groups - <a href="http://forums.e-democracy.org" target="_blank">http://forums.<wbr>e-democracy.<wbr>org</a> - generate web<br>
feeds which may be read by default browser-based feed readers and<br>
there is no problem to display them if someone stays logged in via the<br>
browser.<br>
<br>
However, I&#39;d like to have the developer of the open source GroupServer<br>
- <a href="http://groupserver.org" target="_blank">http://groupserver.<wbr>org</a> - tool explore giving authenticated access to<br>
Bloglines and other users of aggregators that supposedly support this<br>
kind of access.<br>
<br>
Steven Clift<br>
E-Democracy.<wbr>Org<br>
<br>
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