Subscribing to an Authenticated Feed (https: ....)

[Hmmmm!]

I can't for the life of me figure out how to subscribe to an
authenticated feed ... it is a https:// link with a username and
password.

How does one do this?

NetNewsWire version 3.2.2

Also, the updating feature is broken ... in previous version

[Brent Simmons]

You should be able to subscribe to it just like any other feed. If it
requires a username and password, NetNewsWire will ask you to enter
them.

-Brent

[Hmmmm!]

Hey Brent,

Unfortunately, I am unable to get this to work ... the error that I
get is ...

"Can’t subscribe to feed because: could not find a feed."

I know there is a feed ... any suggestions?

Thanks

[spratte]

Got that part, but it doesn't seem to carry over to Google Reader and
therefore it doesn't sync correctly across my NNW installs.
It showed up as (title unknown) in Google Reader.

Feed in case is one of Daring Fireball's member-only feeds.

[Brent Simmons]

Then the feed is probably invalid in some way. Can you get it working
in another news reader?

If you would email me privately the source, or the URL plus username/
password, I'd check it out myself to see if there's a bug in
NetNewsWire or in the feed. (But I totally understand if you can't,
since it sounds like a private feed.)

-Brent

[Brent Simmons]

Google Reader doesn't sync authenticated feeds. In the case of Daring
Fireball, you can use the public feed -- which *does* include full
text -- if you want it to sync.

http://daringfireball.net/index.xml

-Brent

[spratte]

Thanks Brent. I don't suppose you have a Google's Crystal Ball and
have any idea if they expect to support authenticated feeds?

[Brent Simmons]

Nope, no crystal ball or inside knowledge.

The best way to speculate about things like this is to put yourself in
Google's shoes. Deciding to add a feature is a calculation: how much
time/money to implement, maintain, and run? What's the benefit?

I could speculate about the answers to those questions, and that
speculation would lead to further speculation about when you'd see
this feature, but I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader.

-Brent

[Jack (Black Pixel)]

What is the feed URL?

If you don't want to post it here, please send an email to sup...@blackpixel.com with the details.

Jack

 

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On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 12:48:36 PM UTC-7, Scott Helgesen wrote:

I have gotten the same error.  Did you ever get this adressed?  I can get the feed to load in Shrook, internet explorer, and Outlook, but I want something that actually syncs with Google Reader and isn't painful to look at.

[Jack (Black Pixel)]

Both NetNewsWire and Google Reader can't auto-detect the feed on that page. But the feed URL is linked at the bottom of the sidebar:

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/feed/

Using that for the subscription URL works.

Jack

 

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On Monday, February 11, 2013 9:54:04 AM UTC-8, iamw...@gmail.com wrote:

were you able to solve the problem? I am having the same problem with this url:

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/blog/the-loom/

message says it cannot find a feed.

Thanks,

martin