A few of us have been trialing this in the Mod and Admin Teams without problems so far... so time for an open beta to test this to destruction. 
So, the details:
I've added an authenticated RSS feed. You may be familiar with the current RSS feed as documented in the FAQ. If so, you'll have noticed that this feed only contains posts visible to guests and given the quantity of opt-in content we have here this is really not a whole lot of use. The point of authenticated RSS is to make content in forums that are visible to you, not a guest, available.
To use an authenticated RSS feed, you will need to use an RSS reader that supports authentication. I've found RSS Bandit to be pretty decent, but I understand that there are various options in this area, including plugins to Firefox 2.
The basic authenticated feed is available at:
http://games.thehavennet.org.uk/authrss2.php
This displays threads, in post order, exactly as the basic external.php would. Links to the first post in the thread.
The feed is cached for an hour so don't even bother trying to hit it more frequently than that.
Some variations:
http://games.thehavennet.org.uk/authrss2.php?lastpost=1
Threads that have had recent replies, in recent reply order. Links to the first unread post in that thread.
http://games.thehavennet.org.uk/authrss2.php?count=10
Limits the number of responses to 10 items. Currently the system is set to limit that to 30 items.
http://games.thehavennet.org.uk/authrss2.php?threaded=yes
For a reader that supports threaded reading, such as RSS Bandit, this will return links that allow building of a thread. Not compatible with the "lastpost=1" option, yet.
http://games.thehavennet.org.uk/authrss2.php?repalrts=yes
Provides a linear list of recent updates, but only with very basic content. Meant to be used with alerting systems, such as those built in to RSS Bandit, to help advise of new threads or posts. Ignores "count=#" but only fetches threads from the last day at most.
Some combinations will yield strange results or even throw errors. Please consider this a beta test and report any strange behaviour. Once this has passed through open beta successfully I'll update the FAQ entry to reflect this new (preferred?) functionality.
Acknowledgement: This work is directly based on work done by Bob Denny of DC3 Dreams -- my contribution is an upgrade of his 3.5.1 code to 3.6.2, but his code remains substantially intact. Thanks Bob!
So, the details:
I've added an authenticated RSS feed. You may be familiar with the current RSS feed as documented in the FAQ. If so, you'll have noticed that this feed only contains posts visible to guests and given the quantity of opt-in content we have here this is really not a whole lot of use. The point of authenticated RSS is to make content in forums that are visible to you, not a guest, available.
To use an authenticated RSS feed, you will need to use an RSS reader that supports authentication. I've found RSS Bandit to be pretty decent, but I understand that there are various options in this area, including plugins to Firefox 2.
The basic authenticated feed is available at:
http://games.thehavennet.org.uk/authrss2.php
This displays threads, in post order, exactly as the basic external.php would. Links to the first post in the thread.
The feed is cached for an hour so don't even bother trying to hit it more frequently than that.
Some variations:
http://games.thehavennet.org.uk/authrss2.php?lastpost=1
Threads that have had recent replies, in recent reply order. Links to the first unread post in that thread.
http://games.thehavennet.org.uk/authrss2.php?count=10
Limits the number of responses to 10 items. Currently the system is set to limit that to 30 items.
http://games.thehavennet.org.uk/authrss2.php?threaded=yes
For a reader that supports threaded reading, such as RSS Bandit, this will return links that allow building of a thread. Not compatible with the "lastpost=1" option, yet.
http://games.thehavennet.org.uk/authrss2.php?repalrts=yes
Provides a linear list of recent updates, but only with very basic content. Meant to be used with alerting systems, such as those built in to RSS Bandit, to help advise of new threads or posts. Ignores "count=#" but only fetches threads from the last day at most.
Some combinations will yield strange results or even throw errors. Please consider this a beta test and report any strange behaviour. Once this has passed through open beta successfully I'll update the FAQ entry to reflect this new (preferred?) functionality.
Acknowledgement: This work is directly based on work done by Bob Denny of DC3 Dreams -- my contribution is an upgrade of his 3.5.1 code to 3.6.2, but his code remains substantially intact. Thanks Bob!