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Feed block needs to grab xml with username in url

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Jeff

19 Jan, 2011 12:04 AM

I setup a feed block to get some xml and bring it into the cms. I plan to parse the xml and use the imported page much like a db (and have done this lots already). The only thing that is different about this feed is that it has a username in the url. Cascade throws an error (Could not parse feed location) with this and won't publish... is there anyway around this to force cascade to attempt to publish it? The url works fine outside of the cms. Here's an example of how it's formed:
https://username:[email blocked]/feed.xml

1. 1 Posted by Bradley Wagner on 19 Jan, 2011 12:09 AM

   

   Could you tell us what system you're grabbing the feed from? Typically, Cascade will not be able to negotiate any kind of authentication on the feed server so you may have to try to generate a URL with a security token in it, if possible.

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2. 2 Posted by Jeff on 19 Jan, 2011 01:32 AM

   

   grabbing the feed from wufoo.

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3. 3 Posted by Bradley Wagner on 19 Jan, 2011 10:11 PM

   

   According to the Wufoo documentation, to read RSS feeds from Wufoo, the reader must support:

   1. https - which Cascade does, and
      
   2. credentials - which Cascade does not

   Unless there is another way to pass a security token to the feed URL, I'm afraid you will not be able to read these feeds into Cascade.

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4. Ross closed this discussion on 07 Mar, 2011 03:55 PM.