Ohio Riders RSS Feed

[Casper]

We're syndicating all new posts over RSS2.

http://ohio-riders.net/external.php?type=RSS2

Incase you're not familiar with RSS, you can use news readers such as:

Web:

Google Reader --> http://reader.google.com **I use this one**

News is Free --> http://www.newsisfree.com

Mac OS X:

NetNewsWire --> http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NetNewsWire

Windows:

SharpReader --> http://www.sharpreader.net

Linux:

Straw --> http://www.gnome.org/projects/straw

[Disclaimer]

Bringing back a thread from the dead.

So I just installed this Rainmeter thing and was configuring the RSS feeds for my desktop... of course I wanted ORDN to be one of them, but using the link above, it doesn't update in my feed reader, and when I click the feeds that initially show up... it takes me to my login page.

This makes me think it's an Authenticated RSS feed and I can't figure out how to get Rainmeter passed that little detail.

Any help from the serious IT pros on here?

[jblosser]

Any help from the serious IT pros on here?

I don't use Rainmeter (can't make it work on Linux - HA! Conky FTW!), but on my Windows 7 "work box" I'm able to set one of the Sidebar RSS gadget-thingys to work. Click-through takes me to the post in Firefox, logged in. Set it to update every minute - that works, too.

I assume you've saved your user/pass to ORdN in Firefox?

Thought appending the user/pass to the url (http://<username>:<password>@ohio-riders.net/external.php?type=RSS2) might work, but that = fail. Damn.

Uncle Google seems to think that authenticated feeds ain't gonna work through Rainmeter's RSS gadget.

Outlook 2007 will do authenticated feeds - I was able to get it working without much trouble. Tried to find how to embed an Outlook folder in Rainmeter but gave up after 10 minutes.

GroupWise 8 works, too, but you likely don't have GroupWise as your mail server, so, umm, never mind. Plus, you probably can't embed it anyway.

I've got a virgin XPSP3 vm that I'll try Rainmeter on. Saw it years ago, seems like it has matured enough that it may be time to try it out. If I find anything useful (unlike now...) I'll post it up.

[Disclaimer]

Yea, I tried the old <username>:<password> thing too with no dice

And I read the Outlook 2k7 would do it, but it won't incorporate to my desktop.

So, if you run across anything please post it up, it'd be nice to figure it out so I can use it on some of my other RSS feeds that need authentication.

Thanks!