Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:17:31 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: FreshPorts personal newsfeeds Message-ID: <4346D7DB.11418.63067AF6@localhost>
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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/
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