Display a private RSS feed? Is this possible?

Yodaheim

Yodaheim

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I'm having a widget developed by somebody on oDesk. It's an executable built in Adobe AIR and it (amongst other things) needs to pull news from the companies intranet (built with Drupal) and display it on franchisees computers.

The problem is that the RSS feed is private and the Odesk programmer tells me that there is no way to authenticate the feed in the widget and therefore news cannot be displayed in the widget unless the feed is made public. Is this true?

I would have thought that it would be possible to have each franchisees intranet login details somehow stored in the widget and this would allow the feed to be displayed.

Right? Wrong? Any tips?:confused:
 


Yodaheim said:
I'm having a widget developed by somebody on oDesk. It's an executable built in Adobe AIR and it (amongst other things) needs to pull news from the companies intranet (built with Drupal) and display it on franchisees computers.

The problem is that the RSS feed is private and the Odesk programmer tells me that there is no way to authenticate the feed in the widget and therefore news cannot be displayed in the widget unless the feed is made public. Is this true?

I would have thought that it would be possible to have each franchisees intranet login details somehow stored in the widget and this would allow the feed to be displayed.

Right? Wrong? Any tips?:confused:
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I suggest you find a better coder, all of those things should be trivial to do in an Air app, whether written in JS or ActionScript.
 
When you say "intranet", what do you mean? An actual intranet, or more of a password protected area that's available to the internet? If the former, your coder is right. If the latter, he should be able to develop that no problem.

Maybe ask the company to move / clone the RSS feed so it's available via the internet, and just password protected using HTTP Basic Auth. Can't make it much simpler than that for him.
 
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