I think (1) is an important use case that we should look into. It will require a written proposal, since it is not currently covered..
alexis On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > Which of the following will cause a Hub to record a new subscription > and consider itself to be managing it: > > 1. A publisher pings a hub for a topic URL (even if not Subscribers > are currently subscribed to that particular topic URL). The topic feed > includes the particularly pinged hub as a valid hub. > > 2. A subscriber attempts to subscribe to a new feed and it is marked > as a new subscription in the hub. I understand that the hub can be a > distributer for arbitrary feeds, even if they don't list the hub as a > distributor and it will poll the feeds and push to its subscribers. > > Where does the initial data come from? We are looking to expose a lot > of data through a rest interface and updated through pubsubhubbub. > Does the initial data population occur outside of the pubsubhubbub > chain? How does that work with the initial step shown in the > slideshow? When the subscriber first attempts to connect to the > publisher they are "forwarded" to the hub. Does this mean redirected? > If that is the case, does the first connection to the hub cause the > hub to give the subscriber ALL of the content of that particular feed?
