Accessing feed from password protected blog in google reader

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  philippbrauner · Member · Aug 30, 2009 at 12:40 pm

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  I’m using a password protected blog on WordPress.com. I would like subscribe to its feeds in google reader however I can’t figure out to get this done.
  Is there a way to provide httpauth-Authentification or something like that?

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  zefontainhas · Member · Aug 30, 2009 at 12:40 pm

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  You did not specify a blog address or reason for posting when you created this topic.

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  philippbrauner · Member · Aug 30, 2009 at 12:40 pm

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  i think this is a general question not related to a specific blog

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 30, 2009 at 2:28 pm

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  Is the blog set to private under settings > privacy?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 30, 2009 at 2:34 pm

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  Assuming the blog is set to private, private blogs do not have RSS feeds. The reason is that that would defeat the purpose of having the blog set to private.

  The reason there aren’t password protected feeds is that the people and entities involved in the RSS standards can’t agree on how it should be done. Until a standard emerges, and until all feed aggregators adopt it, no feeds for private blogs.