Secured RSS

July 29th, 2005

Will your feed reader work with a username and password?

I’ve take an approach in one of my applications where I generate a GUID and only allow HTTPS requests. So something like:

https://foo.com/rss?id=1230123012301230…

This of course should not be used with Bloglines – but its safe for desktop feed readers from what I understand since the url is encrypted.

2 Responses to “Secured RSS”

  1. Anton Tagunov Says:

    Hmm.. what’s behind that? Why do we want to encrypt anything?

  2. Paul Querna Says:

    Bloglines works with HTTP authentication, and will make any freed using it private. Just insert the format of https://username:password@host/path and it should work.