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# Logging onto RSS feeds
- URL: https://werd.io/logging-onto-rss-feeds/
- Published: 2005-09-23T16:57:51.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:35.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

One of the problems with the RSS feeds is that, for security reasons, they only syndicate public objects. We'd love to change this, but an issue is how do you authenticate an RSS reader into Elgg? It won't remember a set of cookies, and I'm not happy about HTTP authentication over the URL string, so ...

Hmm. Any ideas?