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[Darren James Harkness <740326@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shortly after posting this, I realized there's a small but critical
problem, in that individual feeds and the block instances that use them
are stored separately in the database.

This is fine when initially adding the authenticated RSS feed, but it
fails when attempting to refresh the feed, as login credentials are not
necessarily stored with the feeds themselves.  This causes problems when
it's time for cron to refresh the feeds. (I also realized that I had
added the httpauthuser and httpauthpassword fields to the
blocktype_externalfeed_data table, but did not include the install.xml &
upgrade.xml files in the patch).

So, please ignore the above patch, or consider it a jumping off point
for the full solution.  I'll update with a new patch when I have a
chance to solve the cron problem.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740326

Title:
  Allow use of authenticated RSS in External Feed block

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  It would be extremely useful for users to be able to access
  authenticated RSS feeds from within Mahara.  This would allow users to
  include content that is otherwise inaccessible without having to
  change their privacy settings on the site of origin.

  This is different from letting other sites embed private Mahara feeds
  through secret URLs, as described in bug #796384.

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