Mike DelGaudio

I’ve recently been invited to a private Vox community, and because the posts are not for public consumption, the RSS feeds for the posts require basic authentication. Unfortunately, Google Reader and Bloglines both cannot support authenticated feeds. I’ve also tried the Attensa plugin for Outlook — which claims to support basic auth — but I’ll be darned if I can get it to work. So, my question is why are authenticated feeds so difficult to support? Would it be worth the ability to create difficult to find/guess the RSS feed and leave authentication off? There are so many opportunities for private feeds, I am surprised that this problem has not been solved yet.