Password Protected Podcasts

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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

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

Username: test@jriver.com

Password: 12345

Feed URL with credentials:

http://test%40jriver%2Ecom:12345@www.theonion.com/podcast.xml