I have a custom workflow which basically comes down to content in the Published state not being visible to anonymous visitors.

RSS feeds fail because

1. when the browser makes the call to fetch feeds it does so as an anonymous user
2. catalog.searchResults has hardcoded permission checks (apparently this is fixed in a later version of CatalogTool, but it does not ship with Plone yet)

My solution is to change listSyndicatableContent in utils.py to use unrestrictedSearchResults. I also translated RSS2.pt into RSS2.py because then I can set local roles through a .metadata file.

Everything works perfectly now. My question is: is this a valid use case or am I the only one to want this functionality?