Posted by Gilles Ganault on 07/17/07 20:13

Hello

I have a PHP script rss.php that serves RSS to clients. It
work fine, but I'd like to server customized contents, and for this, I
need to know who the user is.

Unless there's a better way, it looks like the easiest way is to use
HTTP basic authentication:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_authentication_scheme

So I figure I should have a section in the script that starts with
prompts for a login/passwd, then fetch contents with a customized
SELECT, and format it as RSS before sending the output to the RSS
client.

Has someone written this before and could share some tips/code?

Thank you.

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