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Custom Rss Admin feeds

I fixed up the Rss Admin feeds so that modifying web.config (along with new handler classes) would not needed to add a new Admin Rss feed. Also added a simple form to allow administrators to created their own. It is a bit limited, but adding additional options should not be to hard. Though those will have to wait till a later date. On a side note, I found that if I had the option of returning the non-generic  base class, or a generic subclass it makes the code a lot more flexible if you return the non-generic base class if you do not have a need to have...

Subtext Admin Rss Feeds

I just committed the changes to provide 3 administrative rss feeds: Comments Needing Moderation Referrals Errors The change also uses the HttpModule that will convert forms authentication into basic authentication so that the feeds can be viewed in an Rss reader. After seeing http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa479391.aspx I had thought about changing over to use it instead of the simple module I wrote. I decided not to however because it would have meshed well with Subtexts security model. This was one of the more interesting things I have worked on in a while, though I am already thinking of several improvements that...

HttpHandlers and directory authentication/HttpModules

I decided to implement  Admin Rss Feeds after a particularly draining Friday. For the most part it went pretty smoothly, and learned something about working with a different team too ;). I Implemented an HttpModule that looked for FormsAuthentication redirects for rss feeds and changed it over to use basic authentication so rss readers could authenticate. And for a while all was good. In fact other then unit tests I had thought I was done. Then just to be thorough I set up several subfolder blogs off of localhost, and everything stopped working. Apparently something in the way that the rss HttpHandlers...

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