October 15, 2004
@ 05:21 AM
Comments [9]
Read your GMail inbox in RSS Bandit

As has been pointed out by others you can read your GMail inbox in any Atom-enabled aggregator that supports secure feeds. I just subscribed to my GMail inbox in RSS Bandit and it worked like a charm. Screenshot below.


 

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Friday, 15 October 2004 16:57:09 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
OK, I've got two GMail accounts.

So, how to I add to RSSBandit two feeds which differ only by their authentication?

James Curran
Friday, 15 October 2004 17:02:06 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
RSS Bandit doesn't allow you to subscribe to the same URL since this doesn't make much sense. That is until Google did this one URL for every user that differs only by authentication. I personally think this is poor design on Google's part but will *consider* changing the code to special case GMail feeds.
Dare Obasanjo
Friday, 15 October 2004 19:36:50 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Why special case it. Why not just replace the "you can't do that" messagebox, with a "Are you sure?" messagebox.

Clicking "no" on the new box would require exactly the same effort as clicking "OK" on the current box, so we haven't lost anything. And otherwise, it would seem to require just one line of code, replacing
MessageBox.Show(......);
return;
with
if(DialogResult.No == MessageBox.Show(......))
return;

(at least, that's what I'm assuming. I haven't looked at the source code...)

James Curran
Friday, 15 October 2004 19:46:59 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Why special case it. Why not just replace the "you can't do that" messagebox, with a "Are you sure?" messagebox.

Clicking "no" on the new box would require exactly the same effort as clicking "OK" on the current box, so we haven't lost anything. And otherwise, it would seem to require just one line of code, replacing
MessageBox.Show(......);
return;
with
if(DialogResult.No == MessageBox.Show(......))
return;

(at least, that's what I'm assuming. I haven't looked at the source code...)

James Curran
Friday, 15 October 2004 21:26:42 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
I tried subscribing to GMail's atom feed. I always use the "Get title from feed" option. (Yes, I am that lazy) This does not work for GMail feed. So I assumed RSSBandit does not support it. Now I have subscribed. :-)
Vasanth
Friday, 15 October 2004 22:44:32 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Vasanth,
There was a bug where the 'get title from feed' feature didn't work with authenticated feeds. This has been fixed in CVS and should show up in the next release.
kpako@yahoo.com (Dare Obasanjo)
Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:22:58 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Dare, do you have to specifically enter the authentication info, or does RSSBandit prompt you for the information, the first time you Subscribe to the feed?
Randy Charles Morin
Saturday, 16 October 2004 10:33:14 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
There is a simple workaround for this - just put ?abc at the end, where abc is a unique string for each account. Seems to work fine for me. I use:

https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom

and

https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom?mike

for my two accounts,
Mike Warriner
Sunday, 17 October 2004 11:19:27 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
did something change?

I get an error "Refresh feed 'Miscellaneous\GMail' failed with error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

mr.me
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