How to approach generating secure/private feeds?

Question

What would be the best approach to generate a secure feed?

Would some sort of token (feed.example.com/user_private?user=1&token=XXXXXXXXXXX) be allright or are any other more appropriate solutions?

Answer 1

Although I have little to offer on the subject, perhaps you will find the following article useful:

Private RSS Feeds: Support for security in aggregators

He offers summaries of various RSS feed clients (they may be a bit dated by now). The comments may also prove useful.

Answer 2

Use basic authentication.

http://username:password@feed.example.com/user_private

(Not all feed readers support this.)