<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; "><p class="vspace" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 1.33em; margin-left: 2em; "><div><p align="">I'd like to have an rss feed that is password protected. I realize that the password will be recorded in Apache's access logs and will travel the internet in the clear, but at least it offers some security.</p><p align="">According to <a href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/WebFeeds">http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/WebFeeds</a>:</p><p align="" style="font-size: 13px; ">Lastly, it's also possible to configure the webfeeds to obtain the authentication information from the url directly, as in:</p><div style="font-size: 13px; "></div><pre style="font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"> .../Site/AllRecentChanges?action=rss&authpw=secret</span></font></pre><pre style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">I tried setting a password on a page that I can read with a feed reader when the page has no password. I then appended "&authpw=mypassword" to my normal rss URL. My feed reader failed to pick up the feed. Is there some other trick involved to get this to work?</span></span></font></pre></div></p></span></body></html>