Comments on: Password protection for your feed? http://www.teach42.com/2006/03/20/password-protection-for-your-feed/ Education and Technology by Steve Dembo Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:25:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » Friday Links: Internet Safety http://www.teach42.com/2006/03/20/password-protection-for-your-feed/#comment-62595 Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » Friday Links: Internet Safety Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:42:03 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2006/03/20/password-protection-for-your-feed/#comment-62595 [...] Password protection for your feed? (Via Teach42) On March 20th 2006, Steve Dembo posted about password protecting an RSS feed, which you might do to protect student information that is syndicated online. [...] […] Password protection for your feed? (Via Teach42) On March 20th 2006, Steve Dembo posted about password protecting an RSS feed, which you might do to protect student information that is syndicated online. […]

]]> By: arvind s grover http://www.teach42.com/2006/03/20/password-protection-for-your-feed/#comment-39146 arvind s grover Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:29:24 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2006/03/20/password-protection-for-your-feed/#comment-39146 We use RSS authentication in a number of ways. Our Blogger blogs ftp to our Intranet which is password protected by the web server itself. So when anyone tries to subscribe to the feed, it asks for their web server username/password combo. Our WordPress blog feeds work the same way. One drawback is that not all RSS readers support RSS auth, and pretty much no web-based ones do. So Bloglines for instance, no love. The reason web RSS readers don't support it, is because they save bandwith by pulling an RSS feed once every 30 mins, and then sharing it with all subscribed users. They don't go get each feed uniquely, so they don't deal with individual passwords. I think it is a great way to make administrators comfortable with blogs at your school. Tell them there is a password on it! Admins love passwords. :) We use RSS authentication in a number of ways. Our Blogger blogs ftp to our Intranet which is password protected by the web server itself. So when anyone tries to subscribe to the feed, it asks for their web server username/password combo. Our WordPress blog feeds work the same way.

One drawback is that not all RSS readers support RSS auth, and pretty much no web-based ones do. So Bloglines for instance, no love. The reason web RSS readers don’t support it, is because they save bandwith by pulling an RSS feed once every 30 mins, and then sharing it with all subscribed users. They don’t go get each feed uniquely, so they don’t deal with individual passwords.

I think it is a great way to make administrators comfortable with blogs at your school. Tell them there is a password on it! Admins love passwords. :)

]]> By: Richard http://www.teach42.com/2006/03/20/password-protection-for-your-feed/#comment-39069 Richard Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:46:47 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2006/03/20/password-protection-for-your-feed/#comment-39069 This is a key component of our school intranet. For example, our Moodle site is behind authentication, and now that Moodle supports RSS and (in a manner) podcasts, we may encourage more use of subscription to access teacher-provided course content and student projects. However, for course management or blog software installed in-house, the software itself doesn't have to provide thte authentication. Our web server can do it. Richard This is a key component of our school intranet. For example, our Moodle site is behind authentication, and now that Moodle supports RSS and (in a manner) podcasts, we may encourage more use of subscription to access teacher-provided course content and student projects. However, for course management or blog software installed in-house, the software itself doesn’t have to provide thte authentication. Our web server can do it.

Richard

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