Password Protected Podcasts

Overview

To use password protected Podcasts, you must add your login credentials to the Feed URL.

The reason for this approach is because Podcasting is a background task. It's not nice for a background task to show a popup dialog that asks for a username and password.

To add credentials to a URL, follow this form:

http://user:password@www.thepodcastilike.com/rss.xml

Special Characters

If you have special characters, replace them with these replacements:

• Replace @ with %40
• Replace the . with %2E

Example 1

Feed: http://www.test.com/podcast.xml

Username: test

Password: letmein

Feed URL with credentials: http://test:letmein@www.test.com/podcast.xml

Example 2

Feed: http://www.test.com/podcast.xml

Username: test@jriver.com

Password: 12345

Feed URL with credentials: http://test%40jriver%2Ecom:12345@www.test.com/podcast.xml