RSS feed[s] link without password in clear text? - FogBugz Knowledge Exchange most recent 30 from http://fogbugz.stackexchange.com 2013-05-23T07:31:05Z http://fogbugz.stackexchange.com/feeds/question/4858 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://fogbugz.stackexchange.com/questions/4858/rss-feeds-link-without-password-in-clear-text RSS feed[s] link without password in clear text? bluevoodoo1 2010-09-23T15:04:52Z 2012-08-29T14:28:16Z <p>I'm using outlook as my RSS reader and don't feel comfortable appending my plain-text login credentials to the url...</p> <blockquote> <p>"Click here to log on to your FogBugz account to access the RSS feed. If your RSS reader does not support cookies, add this to the end of the feed link to store your FogBugz username and password: &amp;sEmail=youremailaddress&amp;sPassword=yourPassword"</p> </blockquote> <p>It appears that the RSS feed for Kiln activity uses some sort of auth token[?]. Does the 'case' RSS feed have a similar ability?</p> <blockquote> <p><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/baf927dcc0b0c5d0f41dece1e575aa0f?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG" alt="Fog Creek"> <a href="http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3337/whats-that-kiwi-logo-and-case-number-at-the-bottom-of-my-feature-request-bug-r" rel="nofollow">Case FC1955603</a></p> </blockquote> http://fogbugz.stackexchange.com/questions/4858/rss-feeds-link-without-password-in-clear-text/4861#4861 Answer by db for RSS feed[s] link without password in clear text? db 2010-09-23T17:07:09Z 2012-08-29T14:28:16Z <p>RSS feeds for all authenticated users now include a token that authenticates that feed.</p> <p>This token is much less powerful than either your user name and password, or an API token and we will be removing those means of authenticating RSS feeds in a future release.</p>