Question

Is there a way to create an RSS feed that only customers who have logins to our customer portal would be able to see the content of the feeds? I know I can secure the RSS feed using standard ASP.Net authentication which would be fine for viewing while on our site… but how would a reader be able to subscribe to the feed then?

I’m pretty sure the answer to this is No… but maybe there’s another solution I’m not seeing?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can secure it with a other auth cookie, with a long time out like in this article

http://www.andreas-kraus.net/blog/increase-aspnet-authentication-membership-cookie-timeout/

but i prefer another approach. If you have a user, than its always good to give the user an uuid column in the database. Then you could give the user a link to your feed with his uuid and can check if he is allowed too consume it without other authentification.

hope that helps