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…

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.…

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…

HttpHandlers and web.config settings

I figured out what was happening in my previous post. It makes a bit more sense now that I have seen it, being able to just stop working on something is handy, basically the Rss feeds don’t do URL rewriting. So the call to /test1/Admin/ModeratedCommentRss.aspx uses the /web.config and would use the /test1/Admin/web.config, but it has no…

Blog Alias Recap

Well the blog alias feature is in, and the self spam in my referral section has reduced significantly since I started using it last night. Its also nice not seeing Google and Yahoo spidering my blog on 4 different domains (still don’t know how they got 2 of them). How To Use Blog edit screen…