Re: [syndication] Authenticated Access to RSS

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

In article <167171663128.20011215211355@loy-fu.com>, Dion Loy <dion-
yhoo@loy-fu.com> writes
>This doesn't and shouldn't require RSS-level support in the RSS spec.
>This is already done at the HTTP level. It would be relatively
>trivial for current RSS readers (if they don't already) to support
>HTTP authentication (base64 at the very least, maybe NTLM if they want
>to get fancy).

The key here is the words "if they don't already". And the answer is
"they don't". Generally the libraries people are using, curl, Indy, php,
perl, could support normal http authentication, or even something built
on SSL. Or the same cookie based authentication used for session
management in the main site.

But I'm pretty sure nobody does.

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