[TriLUG] RSS Feedreader - Protected site

[David McDowell]

can you setup an rss url as such:

http://www.example.com/myrssfeed.xml?uid=foo,pwd=bar

the GET method of the form should be able to pull those from the
URL... but boy is that secure... :)

^^^  all just a guess... have fun



On 10/18/06, Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
> On Wed, October 18, 2006 10:24 am, Chris Knowles wrote:
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> > Matt Pusateri wrote:
> >> All,
> >>
> >> We have an internal corporate wiki that is protected from being able
> >> to anonymously read/view content.  Consequently most RSS feed
> >> readers
> >> cannot get a feed of changes or new pages from the wiki because they
> >> do not support being able to login into the site.  Does anyone know
> >> of
> >> a cross platform(Win/Linux/Mac) RSS feed reader that can specify
> >> username/password  for the feed, so that users can still get a rss
> >> feed, but not have to manually log in every time?
> >>
> >>
> >> Matt P.
> >>
> >
> > Is this a server based login, or a web form login?
> >
> > If it's server based, you should be able to specify the
> > username/password on the URL
> >
> > http://username:password@wiki.whatever.com/
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > CJK
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> Webform based.
>
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