From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65958 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Connecting to rss on password protected website Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:51:29 +0100 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87fxy6amvi.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: <87prxc9k1c.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197543257 32062 80.91.229.12 (13 Dec 2007 10:54:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:54:17 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14452@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Dec 13 11:54:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J2li0-0006gu-I5 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:54:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J2lhE-0007pL-BD; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:53:40 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J2lhC-0007ow-KE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:53:38 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1J2lh6-0008GS-KI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:53:38 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1J2lh4-0006Oz-00 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:53:30 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J2lh2-0006pO-TE for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:53:29 +0000 Original-Received: from e178008122.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.8.122]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:53:28 +0000 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178008122.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:53:28 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178008122.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:M1ncfhE21Qp/uhm+3VyygnFEFFk= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65958 Archived-At: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:16:05 -0100 Brian Elmegaard wrote: > David Hansen writes: > >> It's possible with >> >> (setq nnrss-use-local t) >> >> and using wgets --user and --password options. > > This looks as the way to go. But, I think I need a little more > guidance. > > 1: Will it work in windows? The download script seems to be a unix > shell script. I don't know, but there is a wget or curl or similar program for windows, isn't it? The script is so simple that I suspect it's easily portable to the DOS shell. > 2: What should I do with the script? What makes gnus use it? I run it from my crontab (so it runs automatically every half an hour here), I have no idea if there is something similar on windows. Gnus then automatically finds the downloaded rss feeds in `nnrss-directory'. David