Trouble logging in with Pocket Casts

Hi, I am trying to switch from BeyondPod to Pocket Casts. However when i try the url method per this it does not seem to work. The app doesn’t ‘officially’ support password protected content but their support site says the url method should work. Can you guy’s help at all with this?

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  • Tim

    Premium Member
    03 November, 2017 - 11:23 am

    <p>It does work for me! And I just checked your account to make sure everything is in working order. When you navigate a browser to this <a href="http://www.thurrott.com/feed/first-ring-daily&quot; target="_blank">this URL</a> you should be prompted for a username and password. What happens when you try and do this? </p><p><br></p><p>It should just show you the RSS feed. </p>

    • coeus89

      03 November, 2017 - 11:55 am

      <blockquote><a href="#213033"><em>In reply to Tim:</em></a></blockquote><p>I just tried your link and it works. It let's me log in. I put in the following</p><p>https://username:password@http://www.thurrott.com/feed/first-ring-daily</p><p>Do I need to put quotes or brackets in there somewhere? Do special characters matter? Cuz my pw is last pass generated. </p>

      • Tim

        Premium Member
        03 November, 2017 - 12:12 pm

        <blockquote><a href="#213033"><em>In reply to Tim:</em></a></blockquote><blockquote> Do special characters matter? Cuz my pw is last pass generated. </blockquote><p><br></p><p>That's interesting. I'm honestly not sure. They may need to be encoded. Generate the URL from this: <a href="https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ " target="_blank">https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ </a></p><p><br></p><p>Then try to use the encoded URL in pocketcast. </p>

        • coeus89

          03 November, 2017 - 12:31 pm

          <blockquote><a href="#213059"><em>In reply to Tim:</em></a></blockquote><p>The encoding didnt work. I changed my password replacing all special characters with letters and numbers and it works. Thank you for your help!</p>

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