On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 08:48:11AM +0100, Torben Nehmer wrote:
> 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 ;-)).
Actually, Apache prevents CGI/FastCGI scripts from doing their own HTTP Basic
Auth. To enable it, you need to recompile apache. (It's not at all
configurable.) We did this for RT 1.0 and I vowed never again ;)
-j
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