I have created a Wiki where the user needs to be logged in for both reading and editing. I dragged the RSS link on "Recent Changes" to RSSBandit (which I have used successfully with username/password protected TypePad RSS feeds) and entered my Wiki username/password in the authentication dialogue. However, RSSBandit cannot access the feed: I get a "General Failure: Refresh feed 'xxx' failed with error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object." I am running MediaWiki 1.10.0 and RSSBandit 1.5.0.10.
I was successfully able to add the feed to FireFox Live Bookmarks, because I was already logging into the Wiki from Firefox. I suspect that RSSBandit knows how to present the username/password to TypePad, since TypePad uses the normal Apache protected directory authentication method. However, in the case of MediaWiki, RSSBandit would have to login and then follow the link back to the original page. Am I on the right track, and is there a way I can get around this problem? Thanks, Norbert