Bug#309868: man page doesn't document passwords

2005-05-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-23 16:34]: > I'll take a patch, but since I cannot find a place in the documentation > that seems like a good place to mention it, I'll close the bug if I > don't get a patch. Please leave the bug open for a while. I'll look into it, but I have to check so

Bug#309868: man page doesn't document passwords

2005-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Right, that makes sense. Maybe I just got confused by this patch > then, but I suppose a brief note that http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ is > supported wouldn't hurt. But if you don't want to mention it, just > close this bug report. I'll take a patch, but since I cannot

Bug#309868: man page doesn't document passwords

2005-05-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-23 16:02]: > No, you use the standard for for http basic auth, > http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ... > The bug report is irrelivent, upstream rightly did not use that patch. Right, that makes sense. Maybe I just got confused by this patch then, but I suppos

Bug#309868: man page doesn't document passwords

2005-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Ah. So I just put something like > http://whatever/foo.rss?user=tbm&password=bar in my feed? But from > #249648 it appears I'd put http://whatever/foo.rss in the feed and > then add a passwords = {("http://whatever/foo.rss";, "tbm", "bar")} to > config.py. No, you use t

Bug#309868: man page doesn't document passwords

2005-05-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-20 19:36]: > > According to #249648, r2e does simple username/password > > authentication. However, the man page doesn't mention this feature or > > how to enable it. > > Well, it's fairly standard http basic auth stuff, AIUI. So you just > encode the user

Bug#309868: man page doesn't document passwords

2005-05-20 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > According to #249648, r2e does simple username/password > authentication. However, the man page doesn't mention this feature or > how to enable it. Well, it's fairly standard http basic auth stuff, AIUI. So you just encode the username and password in your feed url. If y

Bug#309868: man page doesn't document passwords

2005-05-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Package: rss2email Version: 1:2.54-2 Severity: minor According to #249648, r2e does simple username/password authentication. However, the man page doesn't mention this feature or how to enable it. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable')