Hi. I am trying to understand and use RSS feed to watch the Main space and few specific pages in another space on our XWiki installation (version 2.1). I am using Thunderbird as my RSS reader since I already use it for reading a bunch of other RSS feeds. I am unable to get any meaningful feed when I enter the URL provided in the WatchListManager page (which is something like <hostname>/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/WatchListRss?xpage=plain&outputSyntax=plain into Thunderbird. To investigate the feed returned by the above URL, when I viewed the URL in Firefox (and I have authenticated with the XWiki in another tab), I see the correct list of feed items, but when I view the URL in Firefox as an unauthenticated user, the feed list is empty. So obviously user information is being passed to WatchListRss somehow. The question is how do I authenticate as a specific user when using standalone or feed readers such as Thunderbird or Outlook-2007? Does the feed URL have to be modified in any way? Thanks, Milind _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

That is a big hint. Thanks. Could you recommend a feed reader that works well for XWiki RSS? I tried FeedDemon and did setup the password via F8->Passwords and set the URL to the WatchListRss on playground wiki (http://playground.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/WatchListRss?xpage=plain&a…) but it didn't work.

Milind ----- Original Message ---- > From: Arnaud bourree &lt;arnaud.bourree(a)gmail.com&gt; > To: XWiki Users &lt;users(a)xwiki.org&gt; > Sent: Fri, February 12, 2010 7:33:49 AM > Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] How does WatchListRss identify the user to deliver the feed specific to a given user > > Thunderbird cannot fetch feed which required authentication > > Arnaud. > > 2010/2/11 Milind Kamble : >> Hi. I am trying to understand and use RSS feed to watch the Main space and few > specific pages in another space on our XWiki installation (version 2.1). >> >> I am using Thunderbird as my RSS reader since I already use it for reading a > bunch of other RSS feeds. >> I am unable to get any meaningful feed when I enter the URL provided in the > WatchListManager page (which is something like > /xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/WatchListRss?xpage=plain&outputSyntax=plain into > Thunderbird. >> >> To investigate the feed returned by the above URL, when I viewed the URL in > Firefox (and I have authenticated with the XWiki in another tab), I see the > correct list of feed items, but when I view the URL in Firefox as an > unauthenticated user, the feed list is empty. So obviously user information is > being passed to WatchListRss somehow. >> >> The question is how do I authenticate as a specific user when using standalone > or feed readers such as Thunderbird or Outlook-2007? >> Does the feed URL have to be modified in any way? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Milind >>