Hi,

On Feb 12, 2010, at 8:59 PM, Milind Kamble wrote:

> That is a big hint. Thanks.
> Could you recommend a feed reader that works well for XWiki RSS?
> 
> I tried FeedDemon and did setup the password via F8->Passwords and set the 
> URL to the WatchListRss on playground wiki 
> (http://playground.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/WatchListRss?xpage=plain&outputSyntax=plain)
>  but it didn't work.

You need to add &basicauth=1 to the URL for authenticated feeds.

-Vincent

> 
> Milind
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Arnaud bourree <[email protected]>
>> To: XWiki Users <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Fri, February 12, 2010 7:33:49 AM
>> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] How does WatchListRss identify the user to 
>> deliver the feed specific to a given user
>> 
>> Thunderbird cannot fetch feed which required authentication
>> 
>> Arnaud.
>> 
>> 2010/2/11 Milind Kamble :
>>> Hi. I am trying to understand and use RSS feed to watch the Main space and 
>>> few 
>> specific pages in another space on our XWiki installation (version 2.1).
>>> 
>>> I am using Thunderbird as my RSS reader since I already use it for reading 
>>> a 
>> bunch of other RSS feeds.
>>> I am unable to get any meaningful feed when I enter the URL provided in the 
>> WatchListManager page (which is something like 
>> /xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/WatchListRss?xpage=plain&outputSyntax=plain into 
>> Thunderbird.
>>> 
>>> To investigate the feed returned by the above URL, when I viewed the URL in 
>> Firefox (and I have authenticated with the XWiki in another tab), I see the 
>> correct list of feed items, but when I view the URL in Firefox as an 
>> unauthenticated user, the feed list is empty. So obviously user information 
>> is 
>> being passed to WatchListRss somehow.
>>> 
>>> The question is how do I authenticate as a specific user when using 
>>> standalone 
>> or feed readers such as Thunderbird or Outlook-2007?
>>> Does the feed URL have to be modified in any way?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Milind
>>> 

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