Hi there,
>> does anybody have any idea here, would it be possible to move the
>> RSS streams to HTTP Basic Authentication?
>
> In advance, I apologize for not having tested this myself with RT. The
> following is just wild guessing but it's probably the way I'd try to
> go if I had to (and I actually do so in other frameworks):
>
> You could try to retrieve the RSS data "off-line" by means of some
> command-line tool. Then let your WWW server do the authentication.
> I am using a method called screen scraping by means of Perl's
> WWW::Mechanize. WWW::Mechanize is old but still does a good job.
> http://www.google.com/search?q=WWW%3A%3AMechanize+Screen+scraping
This is an interesting idea, I will think about this.
Nevertheless I would prefer it, if RT would support HTTP Basic Auth for RSS
Feeds out of the box, it shouldn't be that hard to implement (if one knows RT
and Perl that is ;-)). I doubt, that the RSS feeds are useable within the
average RSS client across the board, except perhaps the browser-integrated ones
where you explicitly authenticate yourself beforehand. But then, if I have to
go to the RT site to use the RSS feeds in the first place, many of the RSS
advantages are gone. Let alone the usability problems for the average
management guy...
Yours,
Torben Nehmer
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