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A few secure RSS use cases

Posted by cwood at 2005-10-20 18:10

We've been using secure RSS feeds to deliver sensitive information from apps like Salesforce.com. The use case there is simple: I want to subscribe to notifications of new leads as they come in, but I don't want them junking up my Inbox. Obviously, this needs to be secure. Check it out at <https://feeds.spanningpartners.com/sf/>. The model applies to any data that I would normally need to login to an application to see. CRM is popular, as is ECM.

The mechanisms are simply SSL/HTTPS and HTTP Basic Authentication, and the most prominent client tools support them.

Cheers,
Charlie