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Readme: Getting rss #3

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rominf opened this issue Aug 26, 2013 · 2 comments
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Readme: Getting rss #3

rominf opened this issue Aug 26, 2013 · 2 comments

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@rominf
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rominf commented Aug 26, 2013

I propose change address:

http://:YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN@localhost:8888/vk.rss

to:

http://localhost:8888/vk.rss

because of:

  • Some browsers (Firefox in Linux, for example) don't understand that this is an address and google it. That's bad.
  • Browsers show auth box even if they understood address (I don't know why).

PS: I think it's unsafe connecting to this server from untrusted networks because of plain http auth. Is there plans for https?

@KonishchevDmitry
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Actually, this is a project which I wrote for myself only and just published it here. Firstly I even thought to specify access tokens in a config and do not use any auth at all, but then I decided to add at least a basic auth to prevent users from occasional adding of social-rss feeds to public RSS readers, which may compromise their friends' privacy. So I beleive that some auth is required and http basic auth is the one which is supported by RSS readers.

@rominf
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rominf commented Sep 4, 2013

I think I wrote my report bad, so you misunderstood it. Now if you use second line:

http://localhost:8888/vk.rss

you get authentication dialog in Firefox, Kontact and some other application, where you can fill token. And that works OK. If I write:

http://:YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN@localhost:8888/vk.rss

I have troubles (at least in Firefox), see original bug report for details.

So this report is not about changing something in authorization, it's about Readme file (see caption). I propose to write that line:

http://localhost:8888/vk.rss

and then write: "If no authorization dialog was shown, try this:

http://:YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN@localhost:8888/vk.rss

I hope I made my report clear. Sorry for vague report.

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