{"id":198,"date":"2006-03-22T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T19:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/22\/tips-for-password-protecting-your-feed\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T06:25:49","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T05:25:49","slug":"tips-for-password-protecting-your-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/22\/tips-for-password-protecting-your-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Password Protecting Your Feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick and easy way to password protect a feed is to set your web server to require HTTP authentication for the directory where the feed and any enclosure files reside. Here are some instructions on how to set up this authentication with Apache: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.javascriptkit.com\/howto\/htaccess.shtml\">Comprehensive guide to .htaccess<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Authentication Support<\/h4>\n<p>All the best RSS readers support this authentication including <a href=\"http:\/\/ranchero.com\/netnewswire\">NetNewsWire<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkmac.co.uk\/newslife\/\">NewsLife<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/newsfirerss.com\">NewsFire<\/a>. As for podcatchers, iTunes and <a href=\"http:\/\/juicereceiver.sourceforge.net\/\">Juice Receiver<\/a> support this but iPodderX (renamed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transistr.com\">Transistr<\/a>) needs the URL tweaked &#8211; see the workaround below. Also there are the online services: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsgator.com\">NewsGator<\/a> supports it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\">Bloglines<\/a> needs the URL tweaked (again, see below) but <a href=\"http:\/\/reader.google.com\">Google Reader<\/a> didn\u2019t support it at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/feeder\/\">Feeder<\/a> supports HTTP authentication for downloading, reloading and previewing feeds.<\/p>\n<h4>Workaround<\/h4>\n<p>iPodderX and Bloglines can\u2019t read a normal URL that requires authentication. The workaround is to include the user name and password in the URL itself. For example:<\/p>\n<p><tt>http:\/\/user:password@www.example.com\/feed.xml<\/tt><\/p>\n<p>This URL also works in the other RSS reader applications mentioned above.<\/p>\n<p><b>Updated September 15, 2006<\/b> &#8211; iTunes 7.0 no longer requires the workaround mentioned above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick and easy way to password protect a feed is to set your web server to require HTTP authentication for the directory where the feed and any enclosure files reside. Here are some instructions on how to set up this authentication with Apache: Comprehensive guide to .htaccess Authentication Support All the best RSS readers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeder","category-itunes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}