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I have a podcast I want to subscribe to that requires a username and password. There doesn't seem to be anywhere to input that, so I tried:
http://username:password@url/
and that also failed. That's the standard way to pass the information in firefox, chrome, konqueror, etc. Is there a special way to subscribe to a podcast with a username/password in subsonic or is that disabled/unsupported?

My guess is that that information would have to come from whoever your getting the podcast from.

You can log into Subsonic with the username and password in the link.

http://yourhost/subsonic/login.view?use ... word=guest

It's up to the host provider to determine the format required.

GJ51 wrote:My guess is that that information would have to come from whoever your getting the podcast from.

You can log into Subsonic with the username and password in the link.

http://yourhost/subsonic/login.view?use ... word=guest

It's up to the host provider to determine the format required.

I'm sorry. I must not have said it clearly. I meant that I am using subsonic to subscribe to podcasts. It downloads the podcasts. In subsonic, there is a podcast section. If you click that, it lists all the podcasts you are subscribed to as well as all the episodes. I want to subscribe to a podcast which requires a password and download the episodes in the subsonic program/web site itself. It always errors out, though and standard methods don't work. The problem is not accessing subsonic, but rather getting subsonic to access the podcast I want.

No apology necessary. I was merely trying to illustrate that each program or source may use different formats in the link structure to pass username and password information. I quite certain that no one in these forums can answer your question, but I have been wrong before and probably will be again. That aside, the reason it's very unlikely that anyone can give you the answer you're looking for is that we don't even know where you're trying to get the podcast from.

In the Podcast settings the "Subscribe to Podcast" allows you to enter the url for the podcast. As I mentioned in my first response, the format required to pass the username and password within the url isn't a function of Subsonic or your browser, it's determined by the site your trying to contact. Only that site that hosts the podcast can tell you the correct way to embed the username and password in the link. If they don't offer a way to do that, then it can't be done. You have to contact the site that hosts the podcast for that information.

You're using http://username:password@url/

Try ftp://username:password@url/


Just a hunch. Please reply if it works.


http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/user-pass-url.html

Specifying username/password in a URL
It is possible to specify a username (and password!) in a URL. For instance, when you specify an ftp: URL, your browser automatically logs in as user "anonymous" to the ftp server being connected to. You can specify a different username to use with the following syntax:
ftp://username@hostname/

Assuming a password is required, your browser will then prompt you for one.
It is even possible, but inadvisable, to put a password in a URL:

ftp://username:password@hostname/

This is unadvisable for several reasons. The URL being opened may be determinable by other users on the same machine on which you are browsing (as from a command line). The URL retrieved from the remote machine may be logged in some non-secure place on the remote machine. Your browser history would then also contain a copy of your password.
Microsoft is disabling support in Internet Explorer for this kind of information inclusion in HTTP and HTTPS protocol URLs.

GJ51 wrote:You're using http://username:password@url/

Try ftp://username:password@url/


Just a hunch. Please reply if it works.


http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/user-pass-url.html

Specifying username/password in a URL
It is possible to specify a username (and password!) in a URL. For instance, when you specify an ftp: URL, your browser automatically logs in as user "anonymous" to the ftp server being connected to. You can specify a different username to use with the following syntax:
ftp://username@hostname/

Assuming a password is required, your browser will then prompt you for one.
It is even possible, but inadvisable, to put a password in a URL:

ftp://username:password@hostname/

This is unadvisable for several reasons. The URL being opened may be determinable by other users on the same machine on which you are browsing (as from a command line). The URL retrieved from the remote machine may be logged in some non-secure place on the remote machine. Your browser history would then also contain a copy of your password.
Microsoft is disabling support in Internet Explorer for this kind of information inclusion in HTTP and HTTPS protocol URLs.

it's from feedburner. http://feeds.feedburner.com/tdpsmembers2010
in chrome, entering the usernam:password@feeds.feedburner.com works perfectly.

in subsonic, the error for trying:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/tdpsmembers ... d=password
is java.lang.NullPointerException
while entering:
ftp://username:password@feeds.feedburne ... embers2010
gives
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Scheme 'ftp' not registered.
the instructions on the feedburner site are to put the way I originally tried:
http://username:password@feeds.feedburn ... embers2010
into the podcast downloader. Strangely, google reader isn't letting me subscribe either...but iTunes and Amarok will.

Are you using Chrome as the frontend for Subsonic?

I see that this was fairly recently migrated to Google. Is that an issue?

GJ51 wrote:Are you using Chrome as the frontend for Subsonic?

yes, I am. Does that do something different to how it submits to subsonic?

vfxdee wrote:

GJ51 wrote:Are you using Chrome as the frontend for Subsonic?

yes, I am. Does that do something different to how it submits to subsonic?

Looks like it doesn't. I just tried with firefox with the same result inside subsonic, while loading the feedburner link up in firefox directly results in it asking me if I want to subscribe with live bookmarks.

No, I just thought that perhaps Chrome being a Google product may pass the info better than a different browser. I use Chrome for SS for it's clean apperarence.

Is your account migrated to Google?

GJ51 wrote:No, I just thought that perhaps Chrome being a Google product may pass the info better than a different browser. I use Chrome for SS for it's clean apperarence.

Is your account migrated to Google?

What do you mean when you say migrated to google?

https://www.google.com/accounts/Service ... ooi3etAzFg

While looking for information, it appears that feedburner is now owned by Google.

www.feedburner.com/ takes you right to Google logon.

GJ51 wrote:https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=feedburner&continue=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedburner.google.com%2Ffb%2Fa%2Fmyfeeds&gsessionid=8oiK7PxbxoIgooi3etAzFg

While looking for information, it appears that feedburner is now owned by Google.

www.feedburner.com/ takes you right to Google logon.

oooh, I don't use feedburner. The podcast is published through them. I like rss xml files myself