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Inbox RSS feed not working #439

Open frediy opened 9 years ago

frediy commented 9 years ago

From pablo.stafforini@gmail.com on August 22, 2012 02:14:38

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Click on your user name.

  1. Click on the envelope.
  2. Click on 'Subscribe to RSS feed'. What is the expected output? What do you see instead? On Google Reader, I get the following message: "The feed being requested cannot be found." What version of which web browser are you using? On what operating system? Chrome 21, Windows 7 Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/lesswrong/issues/detail?id=341

frediy commented 9 years ago

From wjmo...@gmail.com on August 22, 2012 17:07:03

This feed works but it requires you to be logged in to prevent everyone from being able to see everyone else's inbox. Since the login credentials are not readily available to Google Reader it is unable to access the feed.

To fix this problem we'd need to request login credentials for the feed in a way that Google Reader can handle. This probably means Basic/Digest Authentication or generating a random, difficult to guess URL for the feed that can be regenerated by the user and remove the auth requirement.

Status: Accepted