From: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlcaGfdn9Kye1Gc8aGb67PDVQW4mKbQD7E <Amitai@web>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:13:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: setting cookies before aggregating
X-Git-Tag: 3.20101023~17
X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/a0b55ac3cd4f840f62d0441e3b1fe9b95ec15007

setting cookies before aggregating
---

diff --git a/doc/plugins/aggregate/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/aggregate/discussion.mdwn
index 1a9844577..77005a6a1 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/aggregate/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/aggregate/discussion.mdwn
@@ -89,3 +89,30 @@ New bug: new posts aren't getting displayed (or cached for aggregation). After f
 >>> mind having a copy to investigate. --[[Joey]]
 
 >>>> Didn't think of that, will keep a copy if there's a next time. -- [[schmonz]]
+
+-----
+
+In a corporate environment where feeds are generally behind
+authentication, I need to prime the aggregator's `LWP::UserAgent`
+with some cookies. What I've done is write a custom plugin to populate
+`$config{cookies}` with an `HTTP::Cookies` object, plus this diff:
+
+    --- /var/tmp/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/IkiWiki/Plugin/aggregate.pm  2010-06-24 13:03:33.000000000 -0400
+    +++ aggregate.pm    2010-06-24 13:04:09.000000000 -0400
+    @@ -488,7 +488,11 @@
+                        }
+                        $feed->{feedurl}=pop @urls;
+                }
+    -           my $res=URI::Fetch->fetch($feed->{feedurl});
+    +           my $res=URI::Fetch->fetch($feed->{feedurl},
+    +                                     UserAgent => LWP::UserAgent->new(
+    +                                           cookie_jar => $config{cookies},
+    +                                     ),
+    +           );
+                if (! $res) {
+                        $feed->{message}=URI::Fetch->errstr;
+                        $feed->{error}=1;
+
+It works, but I have to remember to apply the diff whenever I update
+ikiwiki.  Can you provide a more elegant means of allowing cookies and/or
+the user agent to be programmatically manipulated? --[[schmonz]]