>My gut sense is that without an authentication layer this can't work ...
>but then we have authentication layers built into the ILS that *might*
>be leveraged.  Does anyone have any experience with this?
>

I think most RSS readers can support HTTP authentication. You usually need
to write an extension module for custom authentication on the server side.
Mod_perl and apache is probably the most popular combination for adding
custom hooks but there are others as well.

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