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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlpKmTa1OPwy5Jk24pOoD8Vlo2jahzTPnw"
+ nickname="Stephen"
+ subject="authentication"
+ date="2013-08-13T13:31:38Z"
+ content="""
+If a podcast requires authentication, is there a way to pass credentials through?  I tried http://user@pass:site.com/rss.xml but it didn't work.
+"""]]