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by Phillip Pearson.
Original Post: Authenticated TrackBack?
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I'm thinking about implementing private topic channels for the Topic Exchange, at the request of Thomas N. Burg. Right now you can create private channels, but they aren't so useful once created as you can't read RSS or send TrackBack pings to the channels without a browser cookie, so your aggregator and blogging tool won't be able to get to them.
Now, I know I can just use HTTP basic authentication on the RSS feed and aggregators like Radio will happily download it. What about the TrackBack? I don't know if MT or Radio or any blogging tools support authentication there. I guess I could hack it into the URL, so you'd post pings to something like:
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