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Posting to an HTTPS blog with basic authentication turned on

I’m attempting to post to my internal blog using NewGator and SauceReader. This blog runs over https with basic authentication turned on. Unfortunately, the SauceReader posting tool for .Text assumes an http:// prefix. With SauceReader out, I’m looking at NewsGator but they don’t support the basic authentication in the posting. I’m going to check if they have other posting providers for .Text.

I came across a nice post on Private RSS Feeds that documents the feed readers that enable security support.

I suppose life would be easier if I disabled https, but the content is potentially sensitive and I don’t want clear text (content and passwords) being transmitted everywhere.

Published Sep 17 2004, 07:19 AM by shebert

Comments

Greg Reinacker said:

To clarify, NewsGator indeed supports using authentication when retrieving feeds. However, some of the posting plug-ins don't support authentication (depends on the plug-in), which I think is what this post is referring to.

# September 17, 2004 2:18 PM

Steve Hebert said:

Greg is absolutely correct. The authentication is handled on the feed reading side of NewGator and SauceReader, but neither tool supports authoring with authentication turned on (internally or through plug-ins).

I wonder where you can get the specs to author a plug-in? That might be an interesting little project to undertake.

# September 20, 2004 5:09 AM