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ex machina

in response to my request regarding rss readers and basic authentication, olivier "webvoice" travers was nice enough to alert me to the fact that radio userland supports the feature by url-encoding the username and password according to the following scheme: http://login:password@my.site.com/filename.filext. this then reminded me that all rss readers employing a self-respecting user-agent can fetch an rss feed protected with http basic authentication. indeed, netnewswire will also fetch protected feeds using the same url-encoded mechanism [ in hindsight this is head slappingly obvious and i should probably be flogged for not thinking of it straight away ]. i haven't tried amphy , but i'm sure it'll work as well. i'm none too keen on exposing passwords in urls and neither is jim roepcke as evidenced by his netnewswire feature request , but i could live with it if i could find fetch feeds over ssl, which i know that netnewswire doesn't support currently.

when i get a spare minute i'll have to crank up amphetadesk again, since i strongly suspect it basic authentication over ssl.

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