Bug 3098 - Please add support for basic HTTP authentication
Summary: Please add support for basic HTTP authentication
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Claws Mail (GTK 2)
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Plugins/RSSyl (show other bugs)
Version: 3.10.0
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement
Assignee: users
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Reported: 2014-02-28 14:51 UTC by Ricardo Mones
Modified: 2015-01-17 18:59 UTC (History)
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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

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