is there a quick cheat sheet of the breaking changes somewhere? On Monday, June 10, 2013 10:40:10 AM UTC-4, Roman Perepelitsa wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Singpolyma > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> On Jun 10, 7:02 am, Roman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > The hub-initiated automatic subscription renewals are no longer >> supported >> > by the Google Hub. It's a breaking change in the 0.4 specification. >> >> The 0.4 spec is not linked to from the official google code page. >> Where is the spec hosted? >> > > It's at > https://superfeedr-misc.s3.amazonaws.com/pubsubhubbub-core-0.4.html. > It'll become "official" later this month. > > On further thought: what was the reasoning behind this change? I've >> gone back and read some discussions of the changes in this group, and >> haven't seen anything about this one specifically. >> > > The hub-initiated automatic refresh was prone to accumulating garbage > subscriptions on the hubs. It was also giving the subscribers the false > sense of robustness. What if the hub is unable to reach you when it tries > to refresh your subscription? Will you be OK with that subscription being > lost? In practice, the subscribers are usually not OK with that and want to > be in control of their subscriptions. Also pretty much any subscriber needs > to store all subscriptions in a persistent storage anyway, so it's not too > hard to periodically issue resubscription requests for subscriptions that > need to be extended. > > Is there a good "upgrading your subscriber from 0.3" post somewhere to >> tell me what I need to add support for? >> > > Not yet. Although there are several breaking changes in 0.4 (e.g., the > absence of 'sync' subscription requests), Google Hub is mostly backwards > compatible. The only thing that has actually changed in a > potentially-user-breaking-way is the one you noticed -- the hub no longer > initiates resubscription requests on its own. > > >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Pubsubhubbub" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> >
-- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pubsubhubbub" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
