Bug 3098

Summary: Please add support for basic HTTP authentication
Product: Claws Mail (GTK 2) Reporter: Ricardo Mones <mones>
Component: Plugins/RSSylAssignee: users
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.10.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Ricardo Mones 2014-02-28 14:51:17 UTC 
There's feeds which are generated by sites behind a username/password, like Atlassian's Jira in corporate installations.

Would be nice that RRRyl could support a username and password in feed properties for sending to the server at retrieval.

Thanks in advance,
Comment 1 Ricardo Mones 2014-11-10 14:24:05 UTC 
This can be partially achieved with the .netrc support included in 3.11.1.
Just add a line:

machine <feedsite> login <yourlogin> password <yourpass>

to your ~/.netrc file¹. If the feed URL is "http://www.company.com/news/feed.rss" the <feedsite> would be just "www.company.com".

This only supports one user/password per site, not per feed, as a proper implementation would require, but can work in some places.

¹ http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html