Ok, here's another tip for Leopard. I may need to add a new category to this weblog, or maybe just stop spamming my dev blog with these posts. But I will argue that these are all tools that us web devs use.

I have a lot of feeds, and I like to use them in different ways. My basecamp is one of those feeds that isn't so much information based, as much as it is notification based. Because of this, I want to use it in Mail.app.

Simple enough, ok... add feed, and... oh wait a second...

Sweet. Thanks Apple. You were smart enough to know the feed was protected by http auth, but not cool enough to prompt me for the username/password combo.

This solution might be obvious to some, but not to others, so I thought I'd post it anyways. To get your feed working, just overload the URL with your username and password.

http://myusername:mypassword@company.projectpath.com

Mail.app will pull in your feed as normal. But what if you're a hipster using openid!? Click to the My Info section of Basecamp and you'll find a whole section devoted to this. Basically, you'll use your openid as a username and Basecamp provides you with some kind of hashed password.

http://jonmaddox.myopenid.com:34kjlk3kk3kl3jkl43@company.projectpath.com

Yeah, simple, but someone's gonna get stuck.

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