On 16-Jun-06, at 8:23 AM, Chris Johnson wrote:
I'm involved with bunch of Drupal sites which generate a lot of new collaborative content nearly every day. While they are using tracker.module to present a page of recent nodes, the amount of data is still overwhelming to get through. Sounds like a perfect use for a good RSS reader, right?
The problem is, none of the content is viewable without being an authenticated user. RSS readers, like Thunderbird (the greatest unknown RSS reader :-), don't know how to log into Drupal to download the feeds.
Is this something that can be solved by modifying Drupal's feeds to conform to a standard authentication method for RSS? I can certainly do the work, but am looking for collective knowledge and advice to get me up the learning curve faster and avoid building something that only works for me and my audience. I'd like to solve it generically, if possible.
The "standard auth" method is to use the network layer. The newest version of securesite does this, Chris -- using Basic Auth. Check out the groups.drupal.org site for an example -- it allows you access to all "your" feeds by having your aggregator login. Securesite has some additional issues and needs full testing on a variety of aggregators, and can use a bunch of backporting (I think...I forget if Adrian just fixed 4.7 or if it was trivial to do 4.6 as well). It's the reason I reverse bountied it in the first place.... -- Boris Mann Vancouver 778-896-2747 San Francisco 415-367-3595 SKYPE borismann http://www.bryght.com