How to read a RSS Feed hosted on a domain-restricted GAE app?

Question

I've recently created a GAE app for my company.

Access to this app is domain-restricted so only users logged via google from our domain (ie: user@my-company.com) can access the app.

The app generates RSS feeds (ie: my-company.com/rss).

Said feeds cannot be accessed by Feedly since authentication is required.

The goal is to keep the domain restriction, so I guess what I'm looking for is a RSS reader that allows login via a google app account (it'd have to be really easy to use since it is destined to non IT-exprienced users), or better yet, another solution that would allow me to keep Feedly as a Reader.

Answer 1

While I'm not sure if there is any RSS reader that can actually support restricted feeds, you could actually make it work with Feedly something like the following.

In your app.yaml you should not require login or anything for the rss URL so it will look something like this:

- url: /rss/.*
  script: main.rss

And then you should simply generate some unique keys (uuid for example) and only if that is on some list responding with the actual feed, otherwise return the access denied.

Your URL will look something like this:

http://www.my-company.com/rss/550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

Which is public and not easily guessable. On regular basis you could even reset that key, or have it auto generated per user, which is a better option in my opinion.