Research allowing Google Reader to access feeds

[Paul Everitt]

Lots of people at OSI and beyond would like to use Google Reader to subscribe to the Atom feeds in KARL. This currently doesn't work and we don't have the specifics on why it doesn't work.

Do a little research and try to diagnose the request and response. Perhaps run a dummy KARL on a server reachable by Google, with tcpwatch in between, so you can see all the requests and responses. Or, run KARL in the foreground and have a pdb somewhere in the middleware for ingress and egress.

Some hypotheses to test:

1) See if ab still works using basic authentication.

2) Perhaps we simply need to turn on HTTP Basic Auth in the repoze.who config.

3) Maybe Google Reader doesn't like SSL.

4) Maybe ab works, but Google Reader doesn't because it doesn't send the credentials until challenged.

Note that this is only research. Don't go too far into this (say, under 4 hours), because OSI might not want to enable this. It constitutes content leaking out of KARL in ways that might be undesirable.

[Chris Rossi (chris-archimedeanco)]

Google Reader does not support private feeds of any stripe:

http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78730