Question: Reading/Writeing password protected RSS feeds

Answer: To add a password protected RSS feed to a portal block you can set the username and pass in the url by doing

http://[username]:[password]@[host].[domainname].[tld]/path/to/feed


You can set a username and password on RSS feeds by useing a .htaccess file and a .htpasswd file in the /backend dir and setting access for the dir or per feed file

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