Difference between revisions of "Password Protected Podcasts"

Latest revision as of 13:05, 24 June 2011

Podcasting is a silent background task, and as such, can not safely show popup dialogs that ask for user information like a username or password.

To use password protected Podcasts, login credentials must be included in the Podcast Feed URL.

To add credentials to a URL, follow this form:

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

Username: test

Password: letmein

Username: test@jriver.com

Password: 12345

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 ==Overview==
-To use password protected Podcasts, you must add your login credentials to the Feed URL.
+Podcasting is a silent background task, and as such, can not safely show popup dialogs that ask for user information like a username or password.
-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 use password protected Podcasts, login credentials must be included in the Podcast Feed URL.
 To add credentials to a URL, follow this form:
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-==Example==
+==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
-Feed: http://www.theonion.com/podcast.xml
 Username: test@jriver.com
 Password: 12345
-Feed URL with credentials:
+Feed URL with credentials: http://test%40jriver%2Ecom:12345@www.test.com/podcast.xml
-http://test%40jriver%2Ecom:12345@www.theonion.com/podcast.xml