I'm sure many of us have written such systems in the last 8 years, so presumably there is some prior art here. Does anyone know of existing "standards" we could leverage, preferably *very lightweight* ones?


As an example, Gregor's suggestion to use RSD (really simple discovery) was perfect.

--Paul

On jeudi, mars 20, 2003, at 14:18 Europe/Paris, Henri Bergius wrote:

Greetings!

It was planned to talk about a common approach to content
update notifications across different CMS systems in the
OSCOM Sprint. Unfortunately there was no time for bigger
discussion, but we talked about it with Paul.

The idea was that different documents could be given list
of URLs to notify. Then when the content in that document
changes, it would make a GET query to all of those URLs.

The receiving URLs could be doing anything:

  * Update notifications sender by email or SMS
  * Search engine reindex script
  * Syndication update script

Probably the GET query would include information about
the document in some format, but this could be decided when
registering the URLs. Something like:

  http://www.site.com/notifications?url=http://www.oscom.org...
  http://www.site.com/mgd_notify?id=123&table=article

or whatever.

If this is the way we want to handle update notifications,
we would first need to add hooks for making these get calls
in our CMSs whenever something is saved.

The next phase then would be to figure out way for systems
to automatically subscribing to notifications about a particular
piece of content. Maybe a HTTP PROPPATCH query would be good
here.

Ideas? Comments?
The point with this idea is that it should be fairly easy to
implement across all/most Open Source CMSs without major changes.

/Bergie

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