Confluence 2.6 : Adding a username and password to Confluence RSS feeds
This page last changed on Jul 02, 2007 by smaddox.
You can create a feed from Confluence, so that you can keep track of updates to Confluence content. You will then use a feed reader to display the feed. Your feed reader may be an RSS newsreader (examples here), or you can display the feed on a Confluence page using the RSS Feed Macro. Adding your username and password to the feed URLAfter creating the feed, you can add your username and password to the feed URL. This will allow your feed reader to log in to Confluence. You will need to add your username and password for feed readers which use the RSS Feed Macro as well as for external RSS newsreaders.
To add a username and password to a Confluence RSS feed,
Example:
{rss:url=http://confluence.atlassian.com/createrssfeed.action?types=page&types=comment&sort=modified&showContent=true&showDiff=true
&spaces=DOC&labelString=&rssType=atom&maxResults=5&timeSpan=5&publicFeed=false
&title=Example+Confluence+RSS+Feed+With+Authentication&os_authType=basic&os_username=Firstname+Lastname&os_password=realpassword|max=5|showTitlesOnly=true}
URL encoding for special charactersIf you include special characters in a URL string, you must replace them with special codes, called URL encoding or percent encoding. Below are the codes for some of the most-used characters. You can find more information here, and a URL translation function here.
Examples:
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