Connecting to rss on password protected website

Connecting to rss on password protected website

[Brian Elmegaard]

Hi,

I use G R to make rss feeds available in gnus. Is it possible to add a
group on a webpage that requires password?

tia,
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Re: Connecting to rss on password protected website

[Bastien]

Brian Elmegaard <be@mek.dtu.dk> writes:

> I use G R to make rss feeds available in gnus. Is it possible to add a
> group on a webpage that requires password?

No.  Can you add such feeds on other feed readers?

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Bastien

Re: Connecting to rss on password protected website

[Brian Elmegaard]

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> No.  Can you add such feeds on other feed readers?

I don't know. I have never tried anything but gnus.

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Re: Connecting to rss on password protected website

[David Hansen]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:50:24 -0100 Brian Elmegaard wrote:

> I use G R to make rss feeds available in gnus. Is it possible to add a
> group on a webpage that requires password?

It's possible with

(setq nnrss-use-local t)

and using wgets --user and --password options.

David

Re: Connecting to rss on password protected website

[Brian Elmegaard]

David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> 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.

2: What should I do with the script? What makes gnus use it?

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Re: Connecting to rss on password protected website

[David Hansen]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:16:05 -0100 Brian Elmegaard wrote:

> David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> 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

Re: Connecting to rss on password protected website

[Brian Elmegaard]

David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:

> I don't know, but there is a wget or curl or similar program for
> windows, isn't it?  

Yes, I have wget and now I understand that the point is to download a
local copy of the feed page. Thanks.
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