I now have another problem. When I view the feeds using IE7, I can see the items in the feed, but when I use Newsgator FeedDemon, It tells me that “No items match the current filter.” I know that FeedDemon is working, because I have no problems with the feed for your blog.

I have a feed for “my active serials” which will work fine when created and stay working as long as there is something in the list. If I read all of the stories in the list and then try to access the feed again it will show empty. The problem is that if I try to access the feed sometime later I will get “Live bookmark failed to load” and I can never get the feed to work after that even if I use the reload command.

Captain

I just regenerated the RSS feed links (logging in whilst doing so).

I guess we shouldn’t hold our breath waiting for a fix.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435140

Restarting the browser doesn’t always bring back all the feeds. I don’t have a clue why that is.

Am I right in my assumption that the reason we are being annoyed by these changes is that the old way would allow someone to access the stories without an account? If this is so I would at least understand why!

D’oh!!!

Thanks

After some quick web-searches, I read that making a simple change to the feed address can encompass authentication. From what I’ve read, this is generic and should work for any RSS feed (it works for KlipFolio, which doesn’t support authentication). I gather this is an HTTP protocol and as such is “generic.”

For example, before the “new” stories RSS feed was:

http://storiesonline.net/rss/new.php

Making the following changes to the feed address should allow authentication on ANY RSS reader:

http://myname:mypassword@storiesonline.net/rss/new.php

Hope this is helpful.

However, there is a workaround that I’ve found to work.

After you subscribe to the feeds, you need to edit the address of the live feed in order for it to work. It’s a hack and not completely secure if you share your computer with others, but it’s no worse than the token based authentication that we had before.

In Firefox 2.0, select the ‘Organize bookmarks…’ from the bookmark menu.

Select the feed’s bookmark and click Properties.

In the feed location field, you should see something like this:

http://storiesonline.net/rss/mylib.php

right after the // and before storiesonline, add your user name and password as follows:

http://username:password@storiesonline.net/rss/mylib.php

That’s http:// followed by your user name followed by a colon followed by your password followed by the ‘@’ sign followed by the feed’s url.

In firefox 3.0 there is no properties button, just select the feed and its location will show up on the bottom where you can edit it in the same manner.

Of course, don’t use this in Google reader, first it doesn’t work and second, you would be revealing your user name and password to a lot of people.

I don’t see how it can be my system if at least one of your feeds works correctly.

It does remember my User Name and Password but it won’t use them after a restart.

So I can’t explain why yours won’t do the same.

If I have to type my user name and password each time it stops being a feature and becomes a annoyance.

So here it is Monday morning and I’m pissed off. Please explain to me again why think it is necessary to do this.

If it is possible to make Mozilla work a little instruction would be help full.

The authentication method is the regular HTTP one, nothing fancy. The majority of news readers support it. Online readers like Google reader don’t support authentication; so those readers won’t work at all.

I’m thinking of leaving the guest feeds for those of you that use an online reader, but be warned that if I do, it will not contain all the stories that show up in the authenticated feeds.

And what authentication method? I’ve been using various feed readers (including Google Reader) and I’ve never seen anything like that.