RSS authentication?

RSS authentication?

[David Abrahams]

Hi,

I have an RSS feed at a Trac server I maintain (much like the one on
this page: http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/timeline) , but you can't
view my page unless you login to the Trac server.  The RSS works fine
in, say, Firefox, once I've authenticated, but I can't get it to work
in Gnus.  I keep getting:

  Group nnrss:ConferenceRSS contains no messages

Does anyone know how to get around this problem?

TIA,
-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com

Re: RSS authentication?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

> I have an RSS feed at a Trac server I maintain (much like the one on
> this page: http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/timeline) , but you can't
> view my page unless you login to the Trac server.

How do you login to the Trac server?

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Re: RSS authentication?

[Mark A. Hershberger]

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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> How do you login to the Trac server?

The trac installs I've seen have all had HTTP authentication.

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Re: RSS authentication?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes:

> The trac installs I've seen have all had HTTP authentication.

Basic HTTP auth?  I guess nnrss could add that; it would just have to
add the basic auth header.  As an interface thing, nnrss could use the
"http://user:password@place/file.rss" syntax.

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Re: RSS authentication?

[Mark A. Hershberger]

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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes:
>
>> The trac installs I've seen have all had HTTP authentication.
>
> Basic HTTP auth?  I guess nnrss could add that; it would just have to
> add the basic auth header.  As an interface thing, nnrss could use the
> "http://user:password@place/file.rss" syntax.

I could work on this since I use both nnrss and Trac.

I've wondered in the past, but only slightly paid attention to the
relevant discussion:

    Where should I commit changes?  Or, rather, how are they merged
    with EmacsCVS?

(not that I have commit access on gnus…)

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Re: RSS authentication?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes:

> I could work on this since I use both nnrss and Trac.

Cool.

> I've wondered in the past, but only slightly paid attention to the
> relevant discussion:
>
>     Where should I commit changes?  Or, rather, how are they merged
>     with EmacsCVS?

Bug fixes are merged back automagically into Emacs CVS.  Otherwise,
the trunk is (will be) merged with Emacs CVS at irregular intervals.
For instance, after the next Emacs release, it's likely that No Gnus
will turn into Gnus 5.12, and then be merged into Emacs CVS.

Do you have copyright assignment papers on file with the FSF?  (I have
a feeling that I've asked before and forgotten the answer.  :-)

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Re: RSS authentication?

[Mark A. Hershberger]

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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Do you have copyright assignment papers on file with the FSF?  (I have
> a feeling that I've asked before and forgotten the answer.  :-)

I do.

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Re: RSS authentication?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Do you have copyright assignment papers on file with the FSF?  (I have
>> a feeling that I've asked before and forgotten the answer.  :-)
>
> I do.

Cool; then you should have Gnus CVS write access.  Mail me the user
name and the password hash.

(Get the hash with this Perl script, for instance:

-----
#!/usr/bin/perl
print crypt ($ARGV[0], $ARGV[1]), "\n";
-----

Usage: getcrypt password salt

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Re: RSS authentication?

[David Abrahams]

mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes:
>>
>>> The trac installs I've seen have all had HTTP authentication.
>>
>> Basic HTTP auth?  I guess nnrss could add that; it would just have to
>> add the basic auth header.  As an interface thing, nnrss could use the
>> "http://user:password@place/file.rss" syntax.
>
> I could work on this since I use both nnrss and Trac.

Cool; thank you!

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com

Re: RSS authentication?

[David Abrahams]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes:
>
>> The trac installs I've seen have all had HTTP authentication.
>
> Basic HTTP auth?  I guess nnrss could add that; it would just have to
> add the basic auth header.  As an interface thing, nnrss could use the
> "http://user:password@place/file.rss" syntax.

Yeah, I tried that one expecting it to work.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com

Re: RSS authentication?

[David Abrahams]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
>
>> I have an RSS feed at a Trac server I maintain (much like the one on
>> this page: http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/timeline) , but you can't
>> view my page unless you login to the Trac server.
>
> How do you login to the Trac server?

I click the "login" link on the front page and, if the authenticated
session is gone, it brings up a standard dialog like what you see with
.htaccess-protected pages.


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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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