Protected RSS

whaleen · 2009-07-29 23:53:57

Would like to password protect feeds on a section (later by category as well) basis.

To begin with, protecting one section is adequate for my needs.

I’ve tried some fooling around with .htaccess, which can work. However, I wonder if there is a sleeker TXP way of doing this — particularly in conjuction with the heavy use of mem, ign, rvm plugins I’m using for controlling access to articles, forms, pages, sections, tidbits, et al.

Is anyone aware of something I should look at?

aeonflux · 2009-07-30 06:29:15

You can try setting up your own feeds. And use the plugins you mention to password protect your feeds.
I think that can work…

Example how to set up your feed:
http://isaacbowen.com/blog/717/txp-creating-custom-rss-feeds
And you need to set the header with this one.
http://www.dev.michaelgravel.com/text/plugin-mg_setheader

Good luck…

colak · 2009-07-30 07:14:42

aeonflux wrote:

You can try setting up your own feeds. And use the plugins you mention to password protect your feeds.

This wouldn’t work because the normal feed would not be password protected. Someone with basic knowledge of txp would be able to view it even if it is not linked.

colak · 2009-07-30 07:16:56

password_protect might work

whaleen · 2009-08-05 22:10:50

colak wrote:

This wouldn’t work because the normal feed would not be password protected. Someone with basic knowledge of txp would be able to view it even if it is not linked.

That is the problem indeed.

password_protect might work

Not in my situation unfortunately. I’m on assignment from a persnickety group…. I’ve tried to protect txp:body and assorted txp:custom_fields with ign_pw_protext or rvm_priv and have discovered that even while my section in protected, the feed for that section does not honor these protected bits. I understand that the txp feed broadcaster doesn’t assume that a feed reader has a txp tag parser built in. Maybe I’m off on that thought…

Off to look at txp feed customization plugins I think I’ve seen sight of…

Thanks for the ideas!

Gocom · 2009-08-06 01:11:29

colak wrote:

This wouldn’t work because the normal feed would not be password protected. Someone with basic knowledge of txp would be able to view it even if it is not linked.

Word: disabling. You can always exclude sections from feeds, or use .htaccess rules to disable feed paths.

Last edited by Gocom (2009-08-06 01:12:27)

colak · 2009-08-06 07:08:10

Gocom wrote:

You can always exclude sections from feeds, or use .htaccess rules to disable feed paths.

True but then there will be NO feed. The way I understand it is that Josh wants a password protected feed.

In any case, your posting here helped me think of a possible solution.

Read this
Instal rah_external_output
Install mg_setheader
Create the feed using the tutorial but using rah_external_output instead of a section. I think that it provides a cleaner solution.
Disable feeds in ALL/any sections you do not wish to have feeds for
Install ign_password_protect, rvm_privileged or the native txp:password_protect to protect your new feed
Your feed url will look something like http://www.domain.tld/?rah_external_output=feed

I hope I did not leave anything out:)

Gocom · 2009-08-06 10:42:22

colak wrote:

True but then there will be NO feed.

Heh. Yes there will be. Aeonflux suggested using same method you did, where you replied that post which I replied. Thing. :-)

colak wrote:

I hope I did not leave anything out:)

<txp:posted /> outputs locale based time (strftime()) so you possible want to use other date function instead if you use any other language than English. jad_oldposted or null the locale to English with PHP. RSS requires English dates.

If rah_external_output is used mg_setheader isn’t needed. Rah_external_output includes inbuild header setting.

colak · 2009-08-06 14:21:05

Gocom wrote:

Heh. Yes there will be. Aeonflux suggested using same method you did, where you replied that post which I replied. Thing. :-)

true. I’m totally spaced out today. temp is 43ºC and humidity @80% for days now so my brain feels like it is slowly getting steamed.

whaleen · 2009-08-16 00:01:37

colak wrote:

Read this

Instal rah_external_output

-Install mg_setheader

Create the feed using the tutorial but using rah_external_output instead of a section. I think that it provides a cleaner solution.

Disable feeds in ALL/any sections you do not wish to have feeds for

Install ign_password_protect, rvm_privileged or the native txp:password_protect to protect your new feed

Your feed url will look something like http://www.domain.tld/?rah_external_output=feed

Wow, thanks! This is a big help. I really appreciate it. I’ll be back to this thread if anything interesting happens. :)

mrtunes · 2009-09-01 04:31:25

yes colak’s post is something like what i’d think, but here’s another way using that mg_set header plugin.

you make a custom feed using it, and then maybe implement some way of showing an except of the article, and the rest is simply not published except for a link that says “log in/sign up to view this content”.

it all depends on your project of course, but since feeds are so hard to protect this is an easy way to do it and also advertises the content that people have to be privileged to view.

basically you would use all the resources he linked to, but it’s just another way to think about it.

Last edited by mrtunes (2009-09-01 04:32:03)

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