Feedreader 3

Hi

When you will finish with this option?
Will this option just enable additional HTTPAuth dialog when feed item is reading or it will just propagate Auth information to exteral elements (like Mike's thumbnail) included to feed content?

And same for enclosures.. Right now downloading enclosure is not usable for secure feeds with password protected enclosures.

BTW, I think it's bug but not feature.

Thanks,
Eugene

I think I get it now, having tried loads of other applications and workarounds.

I eventually could get google reader to read my password protected feed (server side password protection), but only through via a Yahoo pipe... that's the only way I could even get google reader to recognise the existence of the feed.

FeedReader does a little better... on entering the raw feed URL, it prompts for a username and password, and after that it displays the basic feed information. So that's better than google reader... the feed is recognised direct, and it knows to ask for a username and password.

However, at this point, FeedReader doesn't do as well as google reader.

Having recognised the feed, and having been passed an already-authenticated feed from the Yahoo pipe, google reader now sees the links into the password protected area, and goes looking for the linked images. And google reader now prompts for a username and password. Then the whole feed, including linked images, show up great.

But FeedReader doesn't ask for that second authentication. And no images show up.

I guess that's what you're referring to? Enabling IE dialogs in FeedReader will allow that authentication popup to appear, after which all will be fine.

I really hope you are able to pull this off. I can't believe there isn't an application out there (that I know of anyway) that can manage reading feeds within a protected area of a server. It doesn't seem like rocket science to me ;-)

Would be even better if I didn't have to enter any username and password during normal use -- only during the initial setup of the feed.

Thanks,

Mike

Hi Ingmar

What do you mean by "enabling IE dialogs" -- what will be the effect when a feed is being read, where for each item in the feed there is an embedded image thumbnail, the thumbnail being located in the password protected area of the server? Will a username / password dialog be presented for each item viewed in the feed? And when a user clicks on a link (in the feed) that goes into the password protected area, will the username / password dialog be shown again? No way of FeedReader using the security details it already has to avoid this?

Sorry if I misunderstood.

Thanks,

Mike