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[jamuller3]

Just installed RSS Aggregator V2.7 today here in Chicago.

Marvelous product.

Works like a champ for non-password -protected RSS feeds.

I have a corporate account with BaseCamp that requires a login ID and password.

I logged into my BaseCamp site and generated an RSS-feed URL.

I then invoked the RSS Aggregator V2.7 "Options" popup, using the "Channels" tab, and pasted the URL into same.

I then input the Login ID and password for that secured site/page.

I then saved those specs.

Next, I invoked the "Update All Channels Now" option, and got a red-colored "Off" indicator next to my new channel.

That state of affairs continued despite a couple of attempts to re-do the "Update All Channels Now" sequence.

I then logged into the BaseCamp site manually, using my IE7 browser, in a totally separate window.

I then invoked "Update All Channels Now" again.

This time, RSS Aggregator picked up the proper Title for the Channel and picked up the several dozen item banners.

I then modified the RSS Aggregator "options" (Channels) popup once again to identity the RSS Feed's page-title "[Hull House] Login", and viewed the source code on the BaseCamp RSS Feed page, to discern the field names "user_name" and "password", all of which went into the section on Automated Sessions Access; thinking that all of that would be sufficient to allow me to click on any of the Item Titles (banners), and then to be directed to the message/item page in question.

Instead, I was asked to log in again (by BaseCamp), and the RSS Aggregator utility did not (seem) to be recognizing any of that in order to perform automated / transparent input of User Name and Password.

I exited the RSS Aggregator utility and re-launched it, and, this time, when I attempted to "Update All Channels Now", I received a red-colored "Off" icon next to my BaseCamp channel's name. It was getting Error 401 (not authorized) messages visible as a baloon when I passed my mouse-pointer over the Feed Name. And, of course, I still could not click on an Item/Message banner and automatically see the details. I was once again being prompted for site password and name.

I suspect that my novice status with this (and other RSS) product is working against me and that I am making a mistake somewhere.

Can you tell what it is from what I've sent to you so far?

Can you be of any assistance with this.

Thanks!

[Andy Henderson]

I'm sorry but the password protected access feature covers just the ability to read the feed.

It's possible that the remote site will use a cookie to allow subsequent access to a page from the feed but, if not, there's nothing my code can do. That's because when you click a link in the Aggregator's window, you are dealing with Internet Explorer - not the Aggregator. IE sees the link being clicked and tries to respond to it. Unless the site stores an authentication cookie, you will get challenged for the id and password again.