Ha! That's great. When you say "PubSubHubbub" I say "PSHB" and when you say "PSHB" I say "PubSubHubbub". Meanwhile, Google says "PUSH". I think I'm being subconsciously difficult ;-) Please do not be deterred :-)
Ethan On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Ethan Jewett <[email protected]> wrote: > We would be a subscriber, though we could conceivably set up actions or > something else that acts as a publisher as well. It's one of the options for > really stream-ifying the API. > > This would only affect RSS/Atom actions. The way those actions currently > work is that they poll an RSS feed when they are triggered. We almost always > set them up to run regularly using an "every 5 mins" test, for example. > PubSubHubbub gets rid of the need to poll at all, since the hub will > automatically notify the ESME instance every time the feed is updated. > > This would kind of change the semantics of the RSS/Atom actions from being > an action to being more of a test, actually. Interesting. Not sure if this > is what we want. Does anyone use RSS/Atom actions with a test other than > "every X mins"? > > Ethan > > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Richard Hirsch <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Sounds way cool - so if I understand PSHB correctly - we would then be a >> subscriber as well as a publisher? Why I don't completely understand is >> the >> connection to actions? Would there be a PHSB action that sends messages to >> a >> hub? >> >> D. >> >> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Ethan Jewett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Not very far, but enough to build on, and I plan to keep going once I'm >> on >> > my sabbatical (starting in 1 week!!). There is a branch in the svn >> > repository that has all my progress in it. >> > >> > The basic approach was in to parts: >> > >> > 1. Add an indicator to the action that the feed is PSHB-enabled >> (determined >> > by analyzing the feed when the action is polled), and in this case we >> would >> > never start the poller. Instead we would initiate a subscription. >> > >> > 2. The second half was to add a PSHB handler that could receive >> callbacks >> > from hubs related to specific actions and post messages based on these >> > callbacks. >> > >> > I think I got about 1/3 done with each of these tasks :-) >> > >> > An additional nice-to-have would be to implement use of the optional >> > signing >> > scheme for hubs that support it, though this is not necessary to reach >> our >> > current level of security. >> > >> > Ethan >> > >> > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Richard Hirsch <[email protected] >> > >wrote: >> > >> > > @Ethan: Out of curiosity, how far did you get on your pubsubhubbub >> > > implementation? >> > > >> > > D. >> > > >> > >> > >
