Getting Newsticker.el to use rss feeds with login credentials

Question

I'm trying to use Newsticker.el also on some internal rss feeds which require login credentials. Since all what newsticker does is getting wget to fetch the feeds I tought it would be possible to simply define the user name and password in the wget confiuration part of newsticker.el

So I configured the following in my init.el

'(newsticker-url-list (quote (("RSS FEED" "https://to.feed.com/timeline?format=rss"
              nil nil ("--user=<username>" "--password=<password>" "-q" "-O" "-")))

Feeding the --user and --password options directly to wget works fine but not not within the newsticker.el setup. Anyone tried something similar before?

Answer 1

Newsticker can use wget, indeed, but it can also use Emacs's URL library instead. So you might want to check newsticker-retrieval-method to see which one is used.