[TriLUG] RSS Feedreader - Protected site

[Owen Berry]

If that works but you're concerned about the security, you could always
schedule wget to regularly create static versions of these particular
pages, and then allow anonymous access to the static pages.

Owen

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:09:18AM -0400, David McDowell wrote:
> 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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