Greg Reinacker from NewsGator has blogged about secure RSS feeds, eg RSS you have to pay for and access with a username and password. He says to use Http authentication that has been around for 8 years or so.
But what about all us .Net developers that have developed their websites using Forms authentication?
I’ve not tried creating an RSS feed behind ASP.NET Forms Authentication. I suppose if you just went to the page with the RSS feed in IE, were redirected to the login, login with remember me ticked and taken back to the RSS page……………would your RSS reader know that you ticked the remember me box and be able to access the feed? I’m just thinking out loud here!!