Avoid Purpose Of Feedburner Password Protector
Thursday, April 28, 2016
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Some Google products comprise features that convey express usefulness, when applied to Blogger blogs.
FeedBurner has a feature, "Password Protector", which may live on useful, to newsfeed readers that back upwards HTTP authentication. Within FeedBurner, nosotros convey the "Email Subscriptions" service - which does non back upwards feed authentication.
Newsfeeds, published past times Blogger blogs, are supposed to live on publicly accessible.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 spider web log alongside designated readers will non attain a newsfeed. Blogger does non back upwards authenticated newsfeeds.
To purpose Password Protector, expect on the FeedBurner dashboard, nether the Publicize tab, for "Password Protector". Enter a Username together with a Password, together with striking "Activate". But don't practise this, without knowing the downsides.
Password Protector uses a unmarried username / password combination. All spider web log readers volition purpose the same username.
FeedBurner warns us of possible problems, caused past times this service.
From what I tin sack see, Blogger Reading List may ignore the authentication requirement. People may purpose Reading List, together with persuasion the spider web log feed, redirected through FeedBurner - fifty-fifty if non authorized.
We know, however, that e-mail subscriptions an HTTP trace of the feed from my exam spider web log http://techdict.nitecruzr.net, nosotros come across a symptom of the problem, alongside this option.
This appears to live on merely a redirected spider web log posts newsfeed, targeting a FeedBurner published feed.
Here, nosotros come across a normal redirected spider web log posts feed.
But what happens, when nosotros endeavour to opened upwards the feed?
The "HTTP Viewer" service does non back upwards feed authentication (and solely plant alongside "HTTP:" protocol). And, nosotros come across the result.
It's possible that this characteristic volition live on useful, alongside feeds that are used exterior Blogger (noting the Reading List ability). If you're publishing a Blogger blog, however, you're non probable to larn whatever useful result.
Owners of #Blogger blogs, which purpose the FeedBurner "Password Protector" service, may notice that the service delivers less protection - together with to a greater extent than or less interference - other than the service advert suggests. It would in all probability live on best to avoid purpose of this service.
FeedBurner has a feature, "Password Protector", which may live on useful, to newsfeed readers that back upwards HTTP authentication. Within FeedBurner, nosotros convey the "Email Subscriptions" service - which does non back upwards feed authentication.
Your readers volition live on required to purpose newsreader or aggregator software that supports authentication to persuasion your feed.Some Google, together with non Google, services volition convey a problem, alongside a FeedBurner protected feed.
Newsfeeds, published past times Blogger blogs, are supposed to live on publicly accessible.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 spider web log alongside designated readers will non attain a newsfeed. Blogger does non back upwards authenticated newsfeeds.
To purpose Password Protector, expect on the FeedBurner dashboard, nether the Publicize tab, for "Password Protector". Enter a Username together with a Password, together with striking "Activate". But don't practise this, without knowing the downsides.
Password Protector uses a unmarried username / password combination. All spider web log readers volition purpose the same username.
FeedBurner warns us of possible problems, caused past times this service.
Important: This service prevents our Email Subscriptions service from delivering e-mail updates from your feed, together with it volition too password protect your feed's content when redisplayed using our Headline Animator graphic. This graphic itself becomes password protected, which is undesirable if y'all wishing to purpose it to promote your site/feed. Therefore, nosotros recommend non using Headline Animator or Email Subscriptions, together with this Password Protector service, alongside the same feed.
From what I tin sack see, Blogger Reading List may ignore the authentication requirement. People may purpose Reading List, together with persuasion the spider web log feed, redirected through FeedBurner - fifty-fifty if non authorized.
We know, however, that e-mail subscriptions an HTTP trace of the feed from my exam spider web log http://techdict.nitecruzr.net, nosotros come across a symptom of the problem, alongside this option.
http://techdict.nitecruzr.net/feeds/posts/default
http://www.rexswain.com/cgi-bin/httpview.cgi?url=http://techdict.nitecruzr.net/feeds/posts/default&uag=Mozilla/5.0+(X11%3B+CrOS+armv7l+7834.70.0)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/49.0.2623.112+Safari/537.36&ref=http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html&aen=&req=GET&ver=1.1&fmt=AUTO
Sending request:
GET /feeds/posts/default HTTP/1.1
Host: techdict.nitecruzr.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS armv7l 7834.70.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, similar Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36
Referer: http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html
Connection: close
• Finding host IP address...
• Host IP address = 74.125.28.121
• Finding TCP protocol...
• Binding to local socket...
• Connecting to host...
• Sending request...
• Waiting for response...
Receiving Header:
HTTP/1.1·302·Found(CR)(LF)
ETag:·W/"32e869db-18a9-4ccf-8ad9-dbded29f2b25"(CR)(LF)
Date:·Wed,·27·Apr·2016·15:04:06·GMT(CR)(LF)
Content-Type:·text/html(CR)(LF)
Server:·blogger-renderd(CR)(LF)
Expires:·Wed,·27·Apr·2016·15:04:07·GMT(CR)(LF)
Cache-Control:·public,·must-revalidate,·proxy-revalidate,·max-age=1(CR)(LF)
X-Content-Type-Options:·nosniff(CR)(LF)
X-XSS-Protection:·1;·mode=block(CR)(LF)
Location:·http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChucksTechWorld(CR)(LF)
This appears to live on merely a redirected spider web log posts newsfeed, targeting a FeedBurner published feed.
Related:
But what happens, when nosotros endeavour to opened upwards the feed?
http://www.rexswain.com/cgi-bin/httpview.cgi?url=http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChucksTechWorld&uag=Mozilla/5.0+(X11%3B+CrOS+armv7l+7834.70.0)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/49.0.2623.112+Safari/537.36&ref=http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html&aen=&req=GET&ver=1.1&fmt=TXT
Sending request:
GET /ChucksTechWorld HTTP/1.1 HTTP/1.1
Host: feeds.feedburner.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS armv7l 7834.70.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, similar Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36
Referer: http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html
Connection: close
• Finding host IP address...
• Host IP address = 172.217.0.14
• Finding TCP protocol...
• Binding to local socket...
• Connecting to host...
• Sending request...
• Waiting for response...
Receiving Header:
HTTP/1.1·401·Unauthorized(CR)(LF)
WWW-Authenticate:·BASIC·realm="FeedBurner·feed·ChucksTechWorld"(CR)(LF)
The "HTTP Viewer" service does non back upwards feed authentication (and solely plant alongside "HTTP:" protocol). And, nosotros come across the result.
It's possible that this characteristic volition live on useful, alongside feeds that are used exterior Blogger (noting the Reading List ability). If you're publishing a Blogger blog, however, you're non probable to larn whatever useful result.
Owners of #Blogger blogs, which purpose the FeedBurner "Password Protector" service, may notice that the service delivers less protection - together with to a greater extent than or less interference - other than the service advert suggests. It would in all probability live on best to avoid purpose of this service.
