Vox Tip: Vox in your Feeds
Thanks to the efforts of Team Vox
rock star developer and Japanese teen idol Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, basic authentication for feeds of Vox blogs was fixed a few weeks ago.
This means
that if your feed reader supports it, you can now supply your Vox login
information when subscribing to Vox blog feeds. This will allow you to see
non-public posts (only the ones to which you have access), so you don’t miss any
of the good stuff. Also, with our last release we began to support feeds of Vox
groups, including private groups.
If you want to get in on all of this, there are some things to note:
- Your feed reader must
support basic authentication. If you want to subscribe to a feed that contains
non-public posts, you should add “?auth=basic” to the end of the feed’s URL in
your feed reader. That should tell your reader to prompt you for your Vox login
information, if you haven’t already put it in.
- For private groups, you’ll also need to add “?auth=basic” to the end of the group’s URL. This is because proper credentials are required before Vox exposes information about private groups (including the discoverable feed URLs). Once your reader discovers the feed, you may still need to add “?auth=basic” to the end of the feed’s URL in order to get your reader to do the right thing.
Once you get your feeds configured, they should keep working without having to worry about all this URL altering and credential supplying nonsense.
Feed readers are a great way for you
to be actively notified when there's a new post or asset to a Vox blog or group. My favorite
feed reader is the rather creatively named FeedReader, which is available at for
free at www.feedreader.com. If you use a feed reader with Vox, let us know in the comments.
Read more in All About Feeds.
-- Steve
Comments
flickr can do it. why aren't there docs for it? i'm quite lost in trying to figure it out. :\
(though: yay for authentication support for feedreaders that support it.)
NetNewsWire on the Mac does. Just verified that now. It's what I use for authenticated feeds since Google Reader hasn't gotten to it yet.
Does LJ have authenticated feeds for friends lists? Adding ?auth=basic or ?auth=digest to the fairly convoluted instructions didn't work for me. (Adding either weren't part of the instructions, I just hacked the URL to see if it would work.) At least the instructions spurred me to check to see if I was still a paid member.
i use DeepestSender to post to LJ and i can't figure out how to use that interface to post to Vox' Atom service. maybe the DS just fails in that department as a whole.
Most general blogging clients use the metaWeblog API; it's been around for a few years. The Atom Publishing Protocol has been around a shorter while, and is new enough it hasn't been approved by the standards body yet. However it's so much of an improvement over metaWeblog (which didn't even go through a formal standards process) that Vox supports only it (so far?). The "New" Blogger also only supports Atom.
ecto for Mac OS X uses Atom, but doesn't understand that Vox accounts only have one blog. (That might be something that could be fixed on Vox's end...) The other popular Mac OS X client I know about, MarsEdit, only does the metaWeblog API. DeepestSender appears to only support metaWeblog as well, so no, it won't work with Vox.
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