287410 - no way to "login" to a the site for RSS feeds

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 275131

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Ben Guthrie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

I'm using thunderbird to read the RSS feed(s) from /. and from salon.  there is
presently no way to "login" and have thunderbird be aware of the login.  Hence,
I get ads on slashdot ( no big deal ) and I can't read premium articles ( such
as the war room on Salon ) via their RSS feed even though I am a subscriber.  

When I click the login link, it launches firefox ( np ).  I log in there ( using
firefox ) but thunderbird still doesn't recognize the login. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.subscribe to an RSS feed from a site which has a login ID type situstion
2.pull the RSS feed
3.attempt to view/read a feed which requires your ID to be logged in

Actual Results:  
I couldn't the the desired content

Expected Results:  
the software, i.e. thunderbird, needs a way to recognize the login.  does this
mean thunderbird needs to allow cookies &/or read the browser cookies?

Comment 1

[Ng Ming Hong]

Try to add your username/password in the URL?
e.g. http://username:[e-mail]/index.rss

Comment 2

[Ben Guthrie]

re: Try to add your username/password in the URL?

I've tried it and it doesn't seem to do the trick, though it is still loading
the feeds with the addition of username:password.

yes, I did close thunderbird & relaunch

one change: the password manager doesn't fill in the id/password for /. any
longer.  I assume it managed to pick it up because I entered on the page within
thunderbird the first time it came up.  btw, when I click "login" there, it
launches a page in a new tab in firefox from the link.

Of course, when I click "login" in Salon, it launches a new login page iin a
firefox tab and the password manager does NOT capture it.

Comment 3

[Albert Feller]

this is about missing cookie support in Thunderbird, read
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=788727 for more info.

cookie support was implemented with bug 275131 and will be available in
Thunderbird 1.1, read https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275131#c4

I suggest marking this bug either WORKSFORME or DUPLICATE of bug 275131.

Comment 4

[Albert Feller]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 275131 ***