267836 - RSS+HTTP authentication

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260836

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas Whaples]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: 20041103

The Thunderbird RSS reader should provide a mechanism to send HTTP
authentication for RSS feeds which require it in order to be viewed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1) go to Manage Subscriptions
2) Add the RSS feed which requires HTTP authentication to view.
Actual Results:  
A dialog box popped up indicating "<url of feed> is not a valid RSS feed."

Expected Results:  
Provide a HTTP authentication dialog when trying to verify the feed.

Comment 1

[Jason Carr]

I am running Windows XP with Thunderbird 0.9.  My college campus uses websense
for http validation, and I have to open up Firefox and authenticate before my
RSS feeds work - the status bar says "... is not a valid RSS feed.".  It would
be great if the HTTP authentication login popped up automatically.

Comment 2

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260836 ***