Password protecting ATOM feeds

The Twitter ATOM feed requires your login and password (obviously), which is nicely supported by IE7 (apparently IE7 can't handle RSS feeds with login/pw). IE displays a simple login prompt when you register the feed.

How do I implement something similar in ASP.NET without access to the server or IIS?

From stackoverflow

• You could send a header manually with some basic ASP to request generic http authentication.

  <% authUser = TRIM( Request.ServerVariables( "AUTH_USER" ) ) IF authUser = "" THEN Response.Status = "401 Not Authorized" Response.AddHeader "WWW-Authenticate", "Basic Realm=""SUPEREXPERT""" Response.End END IF %>

  ( Copied from: http://psacake.com/web/fl.asp )

  You could also define authentication settings in your web.config if you're using asp.net

  <!-- Web.config file --> <system.web> <authentication mode="basic" /> </system.web>

  Jakob Gade : Wouldn't that solution ( in web.config) require that I have permission to create users on the server? The solution is going to be hosted somewhere, where I probably can't create Windows accounts on the server.

  Bob Aman : Sure, but the first half of his solution will still work.