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.
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Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/
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