I'm confused. It seems to me the unsubscribe request is simple enough already that you could just fire off unsubscribe requests whenever it makes the most sense for you. Adding the ability to respond with the word unsubscribe wouldn't cut down on the number of requests since the hub would still need to verify the unsubscribe. Of course, the hub could send a special unsubscribe token with each notification, but that would probably add up to more wasted bytes than the occasional unsubscribe.
On Feb 15, 4:57 pm, Waleed Abdulla <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > While implementing PubSubHubbub and using it in production, I realized > that there are several situations in which I need to un-subscribe from a > feed. Per the specs, the right approach, is to send an unsubscribe request. > While this works, there could be an easier way: What if, as a subscriber, > when I receive a ping for a feed that I don't care about anymore, I simply > reply with the word "unsubscribe" in the body to tell the hub to get me off > the list? > > When I receive a ping, I have to check it out and decide what to do with > it, and that's the perfect time to decide if I want to unsubscribe. By > making it super easy to unsubscribe, I believe we'll have less pings that > get ignored because the subscriber can't be bothered to send a proper > unsubscribe request. Thoughts? > > Regards, > Waleed
