Re: Retrieving Feed protected by HTTP authentication through the Google API.

[Adam Feldman]

Hi Yann,

The Feed API can only access feeds that are publicly available; it doesn't know the username and password when it crawls the feed.

The only way to use the API with this feed would be to remove the authentication.  Note:  This would make the feed available to anyone on the Internet and should not be done if it contains information that you don't want shared broadly.

Thanks,

Adam

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Yann Kechichian <yann.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I currently have to retrieve a Feed protected by HTTP authentication through the Google API. At first, I am afraid that it is not possible regarding the existing posts and the documentation which seems not talk about this possibility.

This is a basic authentication and here is what I am trying to do: 

document.location.protocol + "//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?v=1.0&num=10&output=xml&q=" + "http://username:pass...@domain.com/feed"

I get a response status 400 when I run the process (but I can access the content if I retrieve directly the feed with http://username:pass...@domain.com/feed). My question is, do it is possible to retrieve a protected feed using this way? Is there any other possibility to do the job?

Thanks,

Yann

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[Yann Kechichian]

Hi Adam,

thanks a lot for your answer.

I finally found a solution making my own proxy to retrieve the private feed.

Indeed, there is no way to manage the authentication through the Google API, an obvious question of security I guess?

Regards,

Yann

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 12:57:53 PM UTC+10, Yann Kechichian wrote:

Hello,

I currently have to retrieve a Feed protected by HTTP authentication through the Google API. At first, I am afraid that it is not possible regarding the existing posts and the documentation which seems not talk about this possibility.

This is a basic authentication and here is what I am trying to do: 

document.location.protocol + "//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?v=1.0&num=10&output=xml&q=" + "http://username:password@domain.com/feed"

I get a response status 400 when I run the process (but I can access the content if I retrieve directly the feed with http://username:password@domain.com/feed). My question is, do it is possible to retrieve a protected feed using this way? Is there any other possibility to do the job?

Thanks,

Yann