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RSS works great with HTTP Basic Auth. This is the approach I'm using with Haven[1] to expose private personal blog content via RSS. In this manner, each user
by mawise 5y ago
RSS works great with HTTP Basic Auth. This is the approach I'm using with Haven[1] to expose private personal blog content via RSS. In this manner, each user gets a dedicated RSS link of the form: https://name:token@example.com/rss.xml https://name:token@example.com/rss.xml
You can even use the same tools to prevent login sharing such as checking how many IPs the URL is fetched from etc.
[1]: https://havenweb.org https://havenweb.org
- Crespyl 5y agoI've also seen some private/paid RSS feeds just using tokens in query parameters (I think Patreon and Ars Technica do this), eg 'https://www.patreon.com/rss/foo?auth= https://www.patreon.com/rss/foo?auth=...' I'm not entirely sure what the benefit of one over the other is, unless some RSS readers/podcast apps have issues with Basic Auth or maybe it's just easier to fit into existing code server-side.