John Panzer wrote:
> I would have thought so too, but James Snell did a test of https
> support in
> a couple of aggregators a while back and only 3 of 10 worked. Maybe
> it'll be
> different for APP clients.
Do you have a reference? I'd be interested to see how many of those
other 7 supported HTTP Digest :).
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog_comments.jspa?blog=351&entry=106766&ca=drs-bl
Of those 7, I have only 5 installed - 4 out of the 5 support Digest. Of all
the clients I currently have installed 11 out of 13 support Digest.
For the record the ones that support Digest are Blogbridge, Bottomfeeder,
FeedDemon, Firefox, GreatNews, JetBrains Omea, NewzCrawler, RSSBandit,
RSSOwl, Snarfer and Thunderbird. The ones I couldn't get to work are
FeedReader and Sharpreader.
I suspect there may be more support for Digest than https because there are
a large number of feeds that require it (if only at LiveJournal). I don't
know of any servers offhand that require https (although that may just be my
ignorance). Regardless I think the issue will be completely different when
it comes to APP clients. If the major servers all require TLS support then
you can be fairly certain that the clients will support it - you really
don't need to write that into the spec. The aggregators probably just aren't
supporting it because they haven't seen the need.
Regards
James
