RSS Ticker - Login - Username - Password

[lucidwake]

Hi All,

It would be great if a feature was added to both the SqueezeNetwork and the Slimserver to allow login to RSS Feeds.

The reason for wanting this is because EBay now does RSS feeds for advanced search criteria, eg, if you want to know when something heavy (like furniture) becomes available within 10 miles of your house.

Unfortunately however, these rss feeds require your ebay login and password for reasonably obvious reasons.

I am pretty new to all this, I did search and could not find any previous posts so I assume I am the only person who would like this... ;o) If someone could point me in the direction of the source code for the rss ticker, I would happily take a look and have a go myself. Or if someone could point me in the right direction for the protocol for this sort of thing, that would be appreciated to.

kindest regards

[mherger]

> It would be great if a feature was added to both the SqueezeNetwork and
> the Slimserver to allow login to RSS Feeds.

Have you tried adding loginasswort@ to the url (eg.
http://me:mypw (AT) www (DOT) domain.com/myfeed)?

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[lucidwake]

Hi, Thanks for the reply. I haven't tried that no, would it not mean that your login and password would be passed in plain text across the internet? or is that dealt with in some way?

does that happen anyway when you use other RSS readers to log into RSS feeds?

Sorry to throw questions into the air, not a subject I know much about.

good info though, I shall try it..

thanks.

[mherger]

> Hi, Thanks for the reply. I haven't tried that no, would it not mean
> that your login and password would be passed in plain text across the
> internet? or is that dealt with in some way?

It doesn't make a difference whether you enter it in the url or in a
separate field: as long as it's not SSL encrypted (https) it travels as
plain text. If you use a https connection, it's encrypted.

> does that happen anyway when you use other RSS readers to log into RSS
> feeds?

Yes, except if you the url is https.

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[lucidwake]

OK, So I decided not to try the login information with my current ebay account due to the security issues.. (they do not provide rss feeds using https://) and did a search on secure rss feeds which led me to information that my gmail inbox could be ticking away in front of me whilst I'm sitting watching tv.
Unfortunately using squeezenetwork to add the feed using

https://myusername:mypassword@gmail....mail/feed/atom

It comes back with 401 authentication error I think that this could be because the username needs to be an email address and then it switches to being 404 not found... I assume because 2 @ signs before the address is not permitted..

OR https dosent work with the squeezebox RSS feeds.

am I trying things that are still a way off?

Steve.

[mherger]

> It comes back with 401 authentication error I think that this could be
> because the username needs to be an email address and then it switches
> to being 404 not found... I assume because 2 @ signs before the
> address is not permitted..

try name%40yourdomain.comw (AT) www (DOT) gmail.com... Replace the first @ with a
%40 - which is the url encoded version of @. I don't know whether this
will work, but it's worth a try.

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[andyg]

On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Michael Herger wrote:

>> It comes back with 401 authentication error I think that this
>> could be
>> because the username needs to be an email address and then it
>> switches
>> to being 404 not found... I assum

I'll give this a try with my Gmail account. We'll make it work.
HTTPS is supported by the way.

[andyg]

On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Michael Herger wrote:

>> It comes back with 401 authentication error I think that this
>> could be
>> because the username needs to be an email address and then it
>> switches
>> to being 404 not found... I assume because 2 @ signs before the
>> address is not permitted..
>
> try name%40yourdomain.comw (AT) www (DOT) gmail.com... Replace the first @
> with a %40 - which is the url encoded version of @. I don't know
> whether this will work, but it's worth a try.

OK this works for me in 6.5, however we don't parse Atom feeds at the
moment. I'll add Atom support shortly. I didn't need to include "%
40gmail.com" as part of my username either, just https://
usernameassword@... works for me.

[lucidwake]

Ok, I don't get it to work on the Squeezenetwork page.
It seems to work from the slimserver setup, I'll know for sure when I get home

Its all good though, thanks!

I like the potential for this as the gmail RSS feed allows you to filter by labels, hence you could get very specific news via google alerts sent to a gmail label and then only show that label on the squeeze box. The possibilities are almost endless! well, until I get bored and move on.

thanks again,

Steve.

[andyg]

On Oct 19, 2006, at 11:10 AM, lucidwake wrote:

>
> Ok, I don't get it to work on the Squeezenetwork page.
> It seems to work from the slimserver setup, I'll know for sure when I
> get home
>
> Its all good though, thanks!
>
> I like the potential for this as the gmail RSS feed allows you to
> filter by labels, hence you could get very specific news via google
> alerts sent to a gmail label and then only show that label on the
> squeeze box. The possibilities are almost endless! well, until I get
> bored and move on.

I've checked in support for Atom. Gmail feeds now work properly.
This will show up on SqueezeNetwork soon.