Re: [RSS2-Support] How do you resttict access to RSS Feed

["Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@ideaspace.net>]

A follow up question, why is this needed?

If you're trying to guard intranet data that's one thing.  If you're trying to
tailor feeds intended for public consumption there are other ways to handle it.

Intranet stuff is relatively easy, guard it to being delivered only to IP
addresses that are on a fixed range of known IP addresses.  Force the remote
users to connect via a VPN link.  This will require some technical configuration
issues and possibly purchasing the right network routers, firewalls and/or other
pieces.  This works via dial-up, Wifi and nearly anything else that supports
regular IP traffic.

For public sites you've got other choices.  One would be purchasing an
IP-to-geographic lookup system.  Several exist but only the commerical ones are
worth bothering with.  The freebies are just not accurate enough, let alone
speedy enough.  Or doing some sort of other processing to collect your own list
of valid IP ranges.  This is fraught with hackable risks though.

So the question remains, what sort of content and audience are you talking about
here?

-Bill Kearney

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Dyer" <celicagtr@webbiznz.net.nz>
To: <RSS2-Support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:46 AM
Subject: [RSS2-Support] How do you resttict access to RSS Feed


> I'm new to this rss idea and loving the possiblities with what I do..
> One of the problems I have is I would like to restrict access to a
> rss feed by the domain that is requesting it (Not sure what to do
> readers that arn't web based).
>
> If anyone has any ideas, It'll be really apperiated if you can help
> out.