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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: Lynbech Christian <christian.lynbech@tietoenator.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nnrss and password handling
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:15:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86hce9wmgs.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ytqp8wzovjlc.fsf@ul000173.eu.tieto.com> (Lynbech Christian's message of "Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:25:51 +0200")

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:25:51 +0200 Lynbech Christian <christian.lynbech@tietoenator.com> wrote: 

LC> I am tracking some RSS feeds via nnrss which are password protected. Is
LC> there any way to hardwire these passwords, rather than having to type
LC> them in each time I start gnus?

LC> I was hoping for a mechanism akin to ~/.authinfo that for instance
LC> nnimap uses.

How does this look?

machine host://feed.xml username x password y protocol rss

I'll put it on my TODO list for auth-source.el and netrc.el if you agree
with the syntax.

I know the URL is not a machine, but extending the authinfo format is
tricky so I'd rather compromise.

Ted



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-10 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-08  8:25 Lynbech Christian
2008-04-08 16:37 ` Magnus Henoch
2008-04-10 19:15 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2008-04-11 11:27   ` Lynbech Christian
2008-05-09 19:47   ` auth-source glue in url-auth.el (was: nnrss and password handling) Ted Zlatanov
2008-05-09 21:19     ` auth-source glue added to smtpmail.el (was: auth-source glue in url-auth.el) Ted Zlatanov
2008-05-12 12:50       ` auth-source glue added to smtpmail.el Ted Zlatanov

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