https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471
--- Comment #46 from Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> 2009-04-29 12:40:16 UTC --- (In reply to comment #45) > (In reply to comment #42) > > [...] > > * My preferred implementation approach is to assume that the user is using a > > feedreader in their browser. If an unauthenticated user hits the RSS feed, > > we > > publish an item explaining to them that they are not logged in, and give > > them > > instructions on how to enable the "public" (should be phrased carefully) > > feed > > that they can directly give to their feedreader. This means that the > > discovery > > cost is minimal: a user can use the usual mechanism for subscribing to a > > feed, > > without having to have had twiddled a preference beforehand. > > [...] > > What happens when the authentification cookie or whatever of > a user expires? It should be ensured (and tested :-)) that > in this case the items already received are not affected and > that afterwards, "new" items are added even if they are > older than the "not logged in" message. > Any sane implementation will have a &from= parameter such that only results on or after the timestamp in from= are listed. If the client keeps track of the timestamp of the last edit it received, it can use this to get all results (common RSS clients don't actually do this, AFAIK, but it should be possible). *Never*, *ever*, should the cutoff time be based on cookie or login age; nobody suggested that BTW. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
