Joe Gregorio wrote: > Why not POST the Atom Entry, ala the Atom Publishing Protocol?
Essentially, LiveJournal is making this data available to anybody who wishes to access it, without any need to register or to invent a unique API. I can, and have, accessed the LiveJournal stream from behind both a firewall and a NAT device. Doing so requires the client to initiate the request. Therefore, if you really wanted to turn this around, the client would need to initiate a POST, and the server would need to return the "Fat Pings" as the response. I talked to Brad - in fact, I had independently made the same suggestion that Bob did. Brad indicated that if there were clients with different requirements, he was amenable to accommodating each - endpoints are cheap. - Sam Ruby
