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Originally Posted by andreamarucci

A, maybe stupid, question. My forum has some forums that are just for paying members. It's possible to make the feed available just for these members and not for the others?

So nobody would see the listing except for certain members?

Originally Posted by Alfa1

In theory you can make the page unavailable for certain members, but the feeds themselves are available to anyone. AFAIK there is no RSS permissions system.

Not exactly. The 'external.php' script that comes with vBulletin will use your login credentials if you are logged in else it assumes 'guest' permissions. What that means if you're logged in then you'll see the forums listed on the page and you'll be able to view the RSS feeds if you have access to those forums but if a forum is not viewable to guests and if you're not logged in then the forum will not be listed on the page and you'll get a blank page even if you manually enter the URL to the external.php script with the forumID in question.

To test this... create a forum that only a certain user group can see, add yourself to the new group, and then go to the CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing URL. The new forum you created will be listed and, assuming that you've created some test messages, the RSS feed from external.php will be shown when you click the RSS button. Copy the direct URL to the RSS feed to your clipboard. Now logout and view the vB Forum Feed Listing page again. The new forum will not be listed. Now using the URL in your clipboard try viewing the RSS feed directly. It'll be blank.