mnot’s blog

I'm using NewsFire 1.3, and it works fine. It stores the authentication parameters somewhere, so a quit-restart cycle works fine; I don't have to type the username and password again.

Doesn't import into Google Lens.

Google Reader can't get to the feed via the "add a feed" function, so no dice.

Liferea is a no go. Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 handles it fine; prompts the user for re-auth on app restart.

No go for Rojo.

Nor for Bloglines (big surprise there).

NetNewsWire 2.1 (from Safari) appears to handle it fine...

Works fine in RSS Bandit.

NewsGator Online says "Error: Subscription could not be added. Please check the URL and try again."

NetNewsWire Lite (2.1b37) twitches, and doesn't succeed.

Squeet doesn't handle it.

Hmmm, in retrospect, NetNewsWire 2.1 did prompt me for the password again when I rebooted, which is a little odd.

SharpReader:

Error reading URL: Too many redirects
Please try to validate this feed. If this feed validates as correct RSS, you can send an error report.

GreatNews subscribes fine. When I refresh it pops up auth dialog again but I saved the password so it's already pre-filled. Do need to click OK though.

Akregator 1.2.2 can initially download the feed but does not prompt for a password after restart which was unexpected since I didn't tell it to store the password.

Livedoor Reader (http://reader.livedoor.com; the most geeky aggregator in Japan) doesn't work.

FeedDemon 2.0.0.24 asked for username/password but displayed no entries. After a restart and feed refresh of the feed it did not ask for username/password, but still no entries.

Also, the feed name was "mnot’s Web log - TEST".

Mark,

I'm not sure what your goal is, but you may want to coordinate with Dave Megginson. He ran the same tests on his blog a few months ago.

http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2005/07/29/password-protected-rss-challenge/
http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2005/08/20/ssltls-rss-challenge/

Pete

Pete,

Thanks for the links!

I'm testing something different here; it redirects requests for the feed that don't contain a cookie to another resource which, after authentication, gives the aggregator the cookie and redirects it back to the feed.

Awasu handles the feed fine, even after restarting.

Akregator works OK. Asked for username and password, got the feed and a day later it asked for the password again.

Hrm.

Interesting results in NetNewsWire 2.1

I first clicked the link from one of NNW's browser windows. This took me through the authentication step (saved in keychain), and then to the feed, but in the browser (rather than subscribing): a nice page of the text content of the atom doc.

I then tried context-clicking and subscribed to the link directly. It asked for the username password, but it looks like there's now an infinite redirect going on.

So, no dice from NNW for me.