[KLUG Members] Imednio Blam, RSS, & ZideStore

[Richard Harding]

I've not tried it on any authentication type feeds, but I use Liferea.
It's been fine except for some occasional crashing I can't seem to trace
out. 

Rick

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 07:14 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> SuSe 9.3 comes with the Imendio Blam RSS reader; which seems like a nice
> RSS reader.  But if you enter a channel that requires authentication
> (username/password - HTTP Basic stuff, nothing fancy even, like NTLM,
> SPA, or Kerberos) it just sort of doesn't do anything.  And there was
> more documentation about Cyrus SASL a decade ago then this little
> product seems to have now.    Does anyone know how to make Blam receive
> an authenticated channel?
> 
> If not, what RSS readers out there [ and oh lordy do there seem to be a
> gajillion of them ] that don't suck AND do authenticated channels?  (And
> don't start with the letter "K" :)
> 
> <rant>A nice portable .NET one would be ideal, but I don't have my hopes
> up.  Building an RSS reader seems to currently be the 'cool' project for
> every wheenie who thinks he can program (like making
> gee-yet-another-ogg/mp3-player was 18 months ago), clutttering up the
> space with lots of barely operational doo-dads.</rant>
> 
> OpenGroupware's ZideStore integration component makes project notes,
> calenders, and task lists available as RSS feeds;  which would be handy
> in some circumstances, but it of course needs to authenticate you.
> 
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