Leopard Feeds Boo!

An unhappy discovery about feeds in Leopard.

At Linden Lab we use an internal wiki, and I wanted to subscribe to the recent changes feed in Mail.app. The wiki uses HTTP authentication. When I tried updating the feed after I added it, instead of asking for my credentials, Mail threw an error dialog reporting that the feed was password protected, but didn’t ask for the credentials.

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries, posted on November 15, 2007 at 10:49 pm, filed under technology and tagged , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
  • http://weblog.halogenlabs.com Tony

    I think Safari’s web clips have this problem too. I wanted to clip an internal Wiki page from work (which uses HTTP auth), and it clipped it, but when I re-launched dashboard, it just said it couldn’t load the page.

    Pretty weaksauce, IMO.

  • Rob

    Here’s the unsatisfying work-around I found for this problem.
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1231211