On 3/14/2010 10:38 PM, Eric Mill wrote:
>> I'll know that I'll be adding a blacklist to my subscription client for
>> hubs that require authentication on public feeds. It's simply not in my
>> workflow to go to every new hub trying to get an account for a service that
>> is designed to benefit the publisher. If they go out of their way to make
>> using PuSH with their feeds difficult, I can only oblige them by not using
>> it. They and their readers lose out on the benefits they wanted to achieve.
> I think you'd be blacklisting the wrong entity. If a publisher of a
> public feed chooses to use a "private hub" for PuSH delivery, instead
> of some public community hub, then it's the publisher who's made that
> decision.
>
> Since we can likely all agree that private hubs serve a valid purpose
> for private feeds, you'd end up unfairly demonizing private hubs that
> don't actively verify that the feeds that get submitted to them are
> private.
>
> -- Eric
Maybe, maybe not - it depends on the hub and the publisher. Superfeedr's
general hub (http://superfeedr.com/hubbub) requires authentication for all
subscriptions, period. It's only usable by users of their service. i.e. a
Superfeedr user can subscribe to ANY feed using Superfeedr's hub (even one
without hub tags, from my understanding), but a non-Superfeedr user can't
subscribe to ANY feeds, even though they notify users that this is the hub to
use.
Take, for example, the Superfeedr blog feed:
http://blog.superfeedr.com/atom.xml
It publishes
<link href="http://blog.superfeedr.com/atom.xml
<view-source:http://blog.superfeedr.com/atom.xml>" rel="self"
type="application/atom+xml"/>
<link rel="hub" href="http://superfeedr.com/hubbub
<view-source:http://superfeedr.com/hubbub>" />
but you can't actually use that information without a login.
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