From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 8 00:17:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8329F16A41F for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 00:17:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from m21.unixathome.org (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1152743D6B for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 00:17:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [205.150.199.217]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F7FC374 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 20:17:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m21.unixathome.org ([205.150.199.217]) by localhost (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09939-04 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 20:17:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [70.26.229.230]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5665FBFB0 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 20:17:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [10.55.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81103D3B for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 20:17:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:17:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4346D7DB.11418.63067AF6@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at unixathome.org Subject: FreshPorts personal newsfeeds X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 00:17:37 -0000 I'm working on adding the ability to have personal news feeds on FreshPorts. In short, you'll be able to customize a news feed by selecting the ports you want included, nothing else. If you already use FreshPorts, you know what a watch list is [if you don't, you should be using it....]. Each watch list will have its own newsfeed. The URL will be something like this: http://www.freshports.org/rss/watch- list.php?token=07c5e534565839f10b536f3ed638be8412602130bb82f95fbb5a682 b5655aa38 That number is unique to your watch list. Why have such a number? I need some way to uniquely idenfity your watch list[s]. You won't need to log into FreshPorts to retrieve your news feed, so the token is needed. I could just use sequential numbers, but that would make it trivial for people to peruse random news feeds. Not that there is nothing personal or identifying in a newsfeed.... The token is random, more or less, and unique to your newsfeed. It's non-trivial to guess, but if you did guess one, big deal, you have a newsfeed. *yawn*. With regards to the token, any ideas, suggestions, comments as to this approach. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/