Question

Can the HeadlinesPlugin be made to read TWiki WebRss topics on (a) the same TWiki installation, or (b) another (remote) TWiki installation? The limiting factors behind both these questions are that the target WebRss topic is behind Apache authentication and, sometimes, TWiki access control (i.e., WebPreferences only allows a given TWikiGroup to view the web).

Any way around this?

Environment

-- MarcusLeonard - 31 Oct 2005

Answer

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Please try the latest prerelease on HeadlinesPluginDev. I added web.topic shortcuts for internal feeds today. Anyway getting a feed always entails a http request, even from internal feeds. If you still can't fetch the rss due to authentication problems then this is not an issue of the HeadlinesPlugin but one of your twiki/apache/firewall setup not allowing guests to view the WebRss topic without the need of an authentication.

-- MichaelDaum - 02 Dec 2005

Thanks; have tried this and left comment on HeadlinesPluginDev. I know the access issues for a remote wiki are about apache authentication - I haven't had much luck sidestepping it so far, must be missing something (in my brain), so I was hoping someone else had tried it...

-- MarcusLeonard - 04 Dec 2005

Actually there can be an auth issue because the RSS feed uses a %SEARCH. Search redirects to a viewauth in case there is a search hit that has view access restriction and in case the user is not authenticated. I do not see an easy way to work around this besides using viewauth instead of view for the RSS feed (and thus requiring RSS feed reader to authenticate.

-- PeterThoeny - 04 Dec 2005

Hm, actually SEARCH should always skip those topics it has no access to. Some of my TWikiApplications are based on this feature. If it doesn't then I'd consider this as a bug.

-- MichaelDaum - 04 Dec 2005