IOS7: Password-protected podcasts no longer work

Get "unable to download this podcast" error. Works if I login to the desktop version of the website. Works on an iOS6 device. Help!!!!

Yeah.. I've been trying all day to find a way to configure my web server's authentication such that the Podcast app for iOS will work. It seems to have some level of password support, as the podcast app will ask me to give the credentials. However, I've yet to have it work.
I've tried basic type authentication with nginx, basic and digest with Apache2 and I even opted to setup a legit SSL cert for the server, in case that was an unspoken issue.
Dang, I really want to secure my podcast feed AND have people be able to use it on their iOS devices, especially on their AppleTV (hence installing Apps isn't an option).

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Now that a beloved podcast has gone behind a paywall, I'm in need of support for password protection in Podcasts app. The workaround in iOS5 was to enter the password on iTunes on the Mac, and the program would update to the Music app on the iPhone. Now, the Music app no longer supports podcasts at all, and the password-protected podcasts seem to transfer to the iPhone intermittently. And certainly, there seems to be no support or subscribing to password-protected apps from Podcasts app directly.
Or am I missing something?

I've been getting a similar problem. When I update my podcast feeds, if I don't press ok on the password window before it times out, it kills Itunes. I think what is happening is that Itunes is start to request the feed, gets an "I want an user name and password" dialog from the server and then pops up a window. If you don't respond in time, the far server ends the session, and when you finally do respond, itunes can't handle the response from the far server and crashes.
What needs to happen is that Itunes needs to say "I have a username and password associated with this feed" and automatically send that, then only prompt the user if there is a response from the server saying there is a problem.
That being said, I still have the same problem of not finding a place to report this bug as well.

Problem accessing password protected podcast

Hello,
I'm having trouble accessing a password protected podcast. I'm not asked for my username or password. The download fails silently. When I click on the exclamation point in the left columb I see the following message:
There was a problem downloading "http://rss.somepodcast.net/podcast/podcast.xml".
Authorization is needed to access "http://rss.somepodcast.net:8080/podcast/podcast.xml".
[OK]
I'm using iTunes 7.0.2 on MacOS 10.3.9. Has anyone experienced similar problems? I discovered that I could access the podcast if I hand edit a copy of the feed and insert my username:password into each link.
Cole

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I updated my Firefox to 5.0 and now my Kaspersky Password plug-in no longer works. Spoke with them and they do not have a compatible update yet, so I want to go back to Firefox 4.0. How do I do that?

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First, I recommend backing up your Firefox settings in case something goes wrong. See [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Backing+up+your+information Backing up your information]. (You can copy your entire Firefox profile folder somewhere outside of the Mozilla folder.)
Next, download and save Firefox 3.6 to your desktop for future installation. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older
Close Firefox 5.
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Can you restrict or password protect podcasts?

I would like to do a podcast but would like to be able to restrict or password protect it. Is this possible? if not are there any other options?
Thxs.

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But with a password set, either on the PDF or a ZIP file, the person you are sending it to would need to know the password to even open it for viewing. Maybe you are looking to Lock the PDF from being edited?

The swipe to delete a podcast no longer works

When i sipe left to right to delete a podcast on ipad 2, it no longer works. Anyone else have this problem and know how to fix it?

Try quitting the Music app, restart the iPad and the see if you can swipe to delete the podcast (assuming that this is an audio podcast).
Go to the home screen first by tapping the home button. Double tap the home button and the task bar will appear with all of your recent/open apps displayed at the bottom. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner of the app that you want to close. Tap the home button or anywhere above the task bar. Restart the iPad.
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Password protected pages have stopped working

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Linking to Podcast No Longer Works

Hi,
I have a link to my podcast embedded on a webpage as:
http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=214320347
The link used to work, but now gives me a file download dialogue instead of taking me to the podcast in iTunes as it used to.
Any help on how to get the desired behavior back operational would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Chris

If you want a link that goes to your podcast's page in the store, use this link: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=214320347.
If you want people to be able to direct subscribe (without visiting the iTunes Store), you can use either itpc://YOURFEEDURL (you use itpc:// in place of http://) or https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/itmsRedirect?url=itpc://FEE DURL (again where FEEDURL is replaced by everything that follows http:// in your feed address). The second address redirects people to a page where they can download iTunes if they happened to click on your link and don't have iTunes installed.
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Since re-designing my site my podcasts no longer work In iTunes

Hi,
I run a podcast site about the UK adult industry. the site is ukpornpodcast.co.uk.
The site was a wordpress site and the plugin for the podcasts was podpress, it all worked fine. Then the site was re-designed to what it was now, since then people can't subscribe to my podcast.
Podpress sives you the RSS feed filled in for you and it is unchanged. The actual podcasts on my server are in the same location yet when I even try to search for the stream in podpress it tells me that the podcast is not avaibale in the UK.
Why it says this I have no idea. I am not very techical at all so anyone who maybe able to help will have to explain tis very very easily.
I got it working the first time round by tring to submit the rss feed which is http://www.ukpornpodcast.co.uk/?feed=rss2 but it wouldnt take it, so I tried valiatiing the RSS feed and it came back valid by using http://feedvalidator.org, it still didnt work so I signed up to feedburner.com an imputted it, feedburner then gave me a new RSS feed and I inputted that to intunes and it was passed and working in a matter of hours. I also never had to add a new feed every tiem there was a new epsiode, I just had to update my site with anew wordpress post and it worked fineand always updated with a new epsiodein Itunes and everyhting was perfect until then.
Now its not working at all since the re-design I have no idea why its not working.
Can anyone else me please, I have been stuck on this for about 2 months and now I am trying this forum instead in the hope someone has had the same problem.
I have dne a screen caption of what podpress says is my RSS feed for the podcasts.

You should be aware that the p-word is automatically censored in this forum (just so you don't get confused by the appearance of the asterisks) - this doesn't have anything to do with iTunes.
The feed which was evidently submitted to iTunes was at http://feeds.feedburner.com/co/ReDk - this contains an 'itunes:new-feed-url' redirecting iTunes to http://feeds.feedburner.com/co/Ghpe which appears to be the identical feed.
This is not a podcast feed. Although it contains some 'itunes:...' tags it does not contain the 'enclosure' tags which carry the URLs of the media files and which are necessary for iTunes. Indeed there appear to be no links to media files anyway.
iTunes does not display episodes which have no media files, so consequently your podcast appears empty: this would be sufficient reason for it to be removed from iTunes. (I have of course no idea whether the content of the media files, when they were present, was in itself unacceptable - given the title of your podcast I suppose that's a possibility.)
You have created your podcast in WordPress, so obviously as it was working originally something has gone seriously wrong with the process (which seems to be quite a common occurrence with WordPress), however I can't advise on this. I'm afraid you will have to sort out your podcast so that it is a podcast, with properly formatted media file references, and re-submit it as a new podcast. When you do this you will need to change the title slightly or you will be told the feed has already been submitted (this is an irritating bug in the automated part of the submissions process).

Can iTunes grab password protected podcasts?

I have a subscription to an audio stream from a radio station here in Dallas. It's a subscription based thing where you can get the show with no commertials, and the profits go to charity. I have been using Doppler Radio to pull it in up till I got the new iPod (I had a creative Nomad till now). Since I can get iTunes to sync automagically when i get home every night, that would be the best thing to use...
I can't see any way to put my user name and password for the site into iTunes. Am I missing something, or is there no way to get subscription based podcasts?
This is in Windows, by the way. Oh, and if you're wondering, the radio show is a talk show hosted by Russ Martin on KLLI Dallas. They stream it live, too, for free, in case anyone is interested!

I've been getting a similar problem. When I update my podcast feeds, if I don't press ok on the password window before it times out, it kills Itunes. I think what is happening is that Itunes is start to request the feed, gets an "I want an user name and password" dialog from the server and then pops up a window. If you don't respond in time, the far server ends the session, and when you finally do respond, itunes can't handle the response from the far server and crashes.
What needs to happen is that Itunes needs to say "I have a username and password associated with this feed" and automatically send that, then only prompt the user if there is a response from the server saying there is a problem.
That being said, I still have the same problem of not finding a place to report this bug as well.

IOS7: Password-protected podcasts no longer work

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