We're getting error 401 trying to use the rss macro on XWiki to access a RSS feed hosted on the same XWiki server through HTTP Basic Authentication. Using this macro in a XWiki page: {{rss feed=" http://user:[email protected]/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/CategoryRss?xpage=plai..." content="true" image="false" count="2" /}} We get this error: Failed to execute the [rss] macro org.xwiki.rendering.macro.MacroExecutionException: Error processing [ http://user:[email protected]/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/CategoryRss?xpage=plai...] : Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL: http://user:[email protected]/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/CategoryRss?xpage=plai... at org.xwiki.rendering.internal.macro.rss.DefaultRomeFeedFactory.createFeed(DefaultRomeFeedFactory.java:65) at org.xwiki.rendering.internal.macro.rss.RssMacro.execute(RssMacro.java:128) at org.xwiki.rendering.internal.macro.rss.RssMacro.execute(RssMacro.java:61) at org.xwiki.rendering.internal.transformation.macro.MacroTransformation.transformOnce(MacroTransformation.java:188) at org.xwiki.rendering.internal.transformation.macro.MacroTransformation.transform(MacroTransformation.java:135) at org.xwiki.rendering.internal.transformation.DefaultTransformationManager.performTransformations(DefaultTransformationManager.java:84) at org.xwiki.display.internal.DocumentContentDisplayer.display(DocumentContentDisplayer.java:250) at org.xwiki.display.internal.DocumentContentDisplayer.display(DocumentContentDisplayer.java:124) at org.xwiki.display.internal.DocumentContentDisplayer.display(DocumentContentDisplayer.java:54) at org.xwiki.display.internal.DefaultDocumentDisplayer.display(DefaultDocumentDisplayer.java:80) at org.xwiki.display.internal.DefaultDocumentDisplayer.display(DefaultDocumentDisplayer.java:38) at org.xwiki.sheet.internal.SheetDocumentDisplayer.display(SheetDocumentDisplayer.java:113) at org.xwiki.sheet.internal.SheetDocumentDisplayer.display(SheetDocumentDisplayer.java:50) at org.xwiki.display.internal.ConfiguredDocumentDisplayer.display(ConfiguredDocumentDisplayer.java:67) at org.xwiki.display.internal.ConfiguredDocumentDisplayer.display(ConfiguredDocumentDisplayer.java:41) at com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiDocument.getRenderedContent(XWikiDocument.java:901) at com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiDocument.getRenderedContent(XWikiDocument.java:880) at com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiDocument.getRenderedContent(XWikiDocument.java:911) at com.xpn.xwiki.api.Document.getRenderedContent(Document.java:603) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor282.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelMethodImpl.doInvoke(UberspectImpl.java:395) at org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelMethodImpl.invoke(UberspectImpl.java:384) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:173) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:280) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.value(ASTReference.java:567) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTExpression.value(ASTExpression.java:71) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTSetDirective.render(ASTSetDirective.java:142) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:72) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:342) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTIfStatement.render(ASTIfStatement.java:106) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:342) at org.xwiki.velocity.internal.DefaultVelocityEngine.evaluate(DefaultVelocityEngine.java:224) at org.xwiki.velocity.internal.DefaultVelocityEngine.evaluate(DefaultVelocityEngine.java:184) at com.xpn.xwiki.render.XWikiVelocityRenderer.evaluate(XWikiVelocityRenderer.java:105) at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.evaluateTemplate(XWiki.java:1765) at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.parseTemplate(XWiki.java:1705) at com.xpn.xwiki.api.XWiki.parseTemplate(XWiki.java:854) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor123.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelMethodImpl.doInvoke(UberspectImpl.java:395) at org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelMethodImpl.invoke(UberspectImpl.java:384) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:173) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:280) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.render(ASTReference.java:369) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:72) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.VelocimacroProxy.render(VelocimacroProxy.java:216) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.RuntimeMacro.render(RuntimeMacro.java:311) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.RuntimeMacro.render(RuntimeMacro.java:230) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTDirective.render(ASTDirective.java:207) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:72) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTIfStatement.render(ASTIfStatement.java:87) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:72) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:342) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTIfStatement.render(ASTIfStatement.java:106) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:342) at org.xwiki.velocity.internal.DefaultVelocityEngine.evaluate(DefaultVelocityEngine.java:224) at org.xwiki.velocity.internal.DefaultVelocityEngine.evaluate(DefaultVelocityEngine.java:184) at com.xpn.xwiki.render.XWikiVelocityRenderer.evaluate(XWikiVelocityRenderer.java:105) at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.evaluateTemplate(XWiki.java:1765) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils.parseTemplate(Utils.java:155) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:241) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:116) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:431) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:236) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:414) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:538) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1352) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.ActionFilter.doFilter(ActionFilter.java:120) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1323) at org.xwiki.wysiwyg.server.filter.ConversionFilter.doFilter(ConversionFilter.java:144) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1323) at com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.webdav.XWikiDavFilter.doFilter(XWikiDavFilter.java:66) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1323) at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SavedRequestRestorerFilter.doFilter(SavedRequestRestorerFilter.java:208) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1323) at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:111) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1323) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:476) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:119) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:517) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:225) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:937) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:406) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:183) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:871) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:117) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:247) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:149) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:110) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:346) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:589) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:1048) at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:601) at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:214) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:411) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.handle(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:535) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint$1.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:40) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:529) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) Caused by: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL: http://user:[email protected]/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/CategoryRss?xpage=plai... at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1615) at com.sun.syndication.io.XmlReader.<init>(XmlReader.java:237) at org.xwiki.rendering.internal.macro.rss.DefaultRomeFeedFactory.createFeed(DefaultRomeFeedFactory.java:60) ... 104 more I can access the same feed URL using curl on the server XWiki is running: root@server:~# curl -v " http://user:[email protected]/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/CategoryRss?xpage=plai... " * About to connect() to myserver.com port 80 (#0) * Trying 168.62.179.66... connected * Server auth using Basic with user 'user'

GET /xwiki/bin/view/Blog/CategoryRss?xpage=plain&category=Blog.News&basicauth=1 HTTP/1.1 Authorization: Basic ZmVlZHJlYWRlcjphc2xkZmprbzI5xxxxxxxx User-Agent: curl/7.22.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3 Host: myserver.com Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Server: nginx < Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:29:23 GMT < Content-Type: application/rss+xml;charset=UTF-8 < Content-Length: 3411 < Connection: keep-alive < Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=dnmy5peu0w1n1ok4ywwxxxxxx;Path=/xwiki < Expires: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:29:23 GMT < Content-Language: en < Pragma: no-cache < Cache-Control: public < <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns=" http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <channel rdf:about="/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/News"> <title>News</title> (content follows) The same feed URL also works with curl from my laptop, over the Internet. I appreciate any help.