# Basic Auth (for personalized RSS-Feed)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/basic-auth-for-personalized-rss-feed/61203>\
**Category:** Engines\
**Created:** [May 21, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/basic-auth-for-personalized-rss-feed/61203 "2006-05-21T17:03:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![justbe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@justbe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/justbe)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/basic-auth-for-personalized-rss-feed/61203/1 "2006-05-21T17:03:44Z")

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Hey there,

Has anyone already implemented some sort of basic auth to be used with  
the  
user/login-engine? I am asking because I want to offer personalized  
feeds  
for a small web-application and eventually someone knows or already has  
such  
a functionality and might share it 🙂

Thanks,  
-j

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**Author:** ![justbe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@justbe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/justbe)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/basic-auth-for-personalized-rss-feed/61203/2 "2006-05-21T23:36:04Z")

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Do you mean HTTP basic authentication? In which case I don’t think so,  
although we may look at it at work at some point.

- james

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**Author:** ![justbe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@justbe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/justbe)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 8:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/basic-auth-for-personalized-rss-feed/61203/3 "2006-05-22T08:58:18Z")

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James,

yep. I have built one of my web-apps upon the two rails-engines and a  
personalized rss-feed is a must sooner or later, so I’ll have to  
implement it anyway. I’ll open a ticket in the bug-system for http basic  
auth support and will attach a patch to it as soon as I am done (unless  
someone else already has done it by then). Does that sound ok?

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Joerg B.  
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**Author:** ![justbe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@justbe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/justbe)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 10:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/basic-auth-for-personalized-rss-feed/61203/4 "2006-05-22T10:39:05Z")

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Sure, a ticket is fine - make sure and mark it as enhancement, the  
component is login\_engine and milestone should be 1.2.0 (i.e. it’s  
speculative).

Thanks

- james