[Canola] Podcasts w/ authentication?

[brianjdoherty]

One of my favorite podcast has a feed that requires authentication. In iTunes, a login/password prompt comes up. Any plans to include this in Canola? I'm not sure how common this is in the podcast world, but for *me* it poses a problem. :-)

Here's the feed I'm talking about:
http://www.manager-tools.com/registered-members/rss.xml
The folks there do offer a similar feed that doesn't require authentication, but for some reason that one also fails to work in Canola:
http://www.manager-tools.com/members/feed/rss2
There's a third feed, that doesn't require membership, that works fine in Canola:
http://www.manager-tools.com/podcasts/basics-rss.xml
So, I don't think it's just me being a bonehead!

These feeds require registration to use, but it's free. (BTW, the Manager Tools web site offers very comprehensive and usable advice IMHO, if your job requires you to manage others.)

[gowen]

Despite the name Videocenter will download audio podcasts as well and features optional authentication,, although I haven't tried it myself.

[handful]

Thanks for the feeds. Indeed there's a plan to include that on Canola, as someone already requested that here. But we are focusing first on solving the supported feeds problems, then the whole software features than we do the details.

But : can't you try something like : user:pass@fileaddress ? just for now?

@gowen: Yes it will :) I have worked on Videocenter as well :) (and also Morpheuz and Miguel from Canola team). We do not work solely on Canola, actually :)))))

Marcelo

[KennethChristiansen]

One of my favorite podcast has a feed that requires authentication. In iTunes, a login/password prompt comes up. Any plans to include this in Canola? I'm not sure how common this is in the podcast world, but for *me* it poses a problem. :-)

Here's the feed I'm talking about:
http://www.manager-tools.com/registered-members/rss.xml
The folks there do offer a similar feed that doesn't require authentication, but for some reason that one also fails to work in Canola:
http://www.manager-tools.com/members/feed/rss2
There's a third feed, that doesn't require membership, that works fine in Canola:
http://www.manager-tools.com/podcasts/basics-rss.xml
So, I don't think it's just me being a bonehead!

These feeds require registration to use, but it's free. (BTW, the Manager Tools web site offers very comprehensive and usable advice IMHO, if your job requires you to manage others.)

I had a look at this and implemented authentication while doing this :-) The problem is with their server, it tells that the mimetype is "text/html" and not "text/xml+rss". You should report this bug to them.