RFE: support for feeds behind HTTP auth

[justdave]

I tried to subscribe to a feed on an issue tracker that requires http auth so it knows which tickets I'm allowed to see in the activity feed, and and it wouldn't add it because "Can't add a feed because no feed was found", without ever prompting me for the user/password. If I visit the url manually in a private browsing window in the web browser I get prompted for the password and then see the xml.

[ghost]

Agreed, really need to have http auth supported for feeds.

[justdave]

Just confirming this issue still exists in Version 5.0 that just came last week. It's one of two issues blocking me from upgrading from version 4.x

[mawise]

Adding my voice here that I think supporting private feeds would be very valuable. I'm working on a private blog project (https://havenweb.org) that exposes private feeds, it would be great if I could tell people that they can use NetNewsWire!

[cye18]

I'd like to echo on this. It's worth adding this feature. It would make it much more powerful. Thanks.

[tcurdt]

I also ended up here, shattered that there is no support.

How I would love to see it implemented:

Just a checkbox in the Info window "use auth".
Which then means get the credentials from the keychain.
Prompt the user if there is none and store it in keychain.

[dafdafdafdaf]

I'm surprised that this function has not been implemented yet.

[honzajavorek]

I thought I'd save my articles to Pocket and then use the RSS feed they export to load all the saved articles to my favorite place where to read stuff, the NetNewsWire. The feeds are password-protected unless I decide to open them to public (with a very guessable URL). Just noting it down here as a vote to implement this feature, which is more than just a thumbs up, but also has some background "why do you need this" explained.