Well I would imagine the server component that clients listen to only expect one client to be listening to a given id.
So getting multiple connections to the same channel wont work, maybe they will all actully appear to work, but only (say) the last will be functional. Or when the channel api server forwards a message to the (say) first client, it considers it job done, and ignores the other clients also listening. ie the server would need to be designed to able to specifically track multiple actual clients listening. Its probably only designed to work with one, even though it may work in some situations (The point about incepting, say the person using the incepted token to listen, it may well end up disconnecting the original client (physically or virtually). ie still only one works, the original could end up dead) On 3 May 2011 05:29, Albert <albertpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the documentation, it says... > > "Treat the token returned by create_channel() as a secret. If a > malicious application gains access to the token, it could listen to > messages sent along the channel you are using."[1] > > and then the following section proceeds to say... > > "Only one client at a time can connect to a channel using a given > Client ID, so an application cannot use a Client ID for fan-out. In > other words, it's not possible to create a central Client ID for > connections to multiple clients (For example, you can't create a > Client ID for something like a "global-high-scores" channel and use it > to broadcast to multiple game clients.)"[2] > > > If someone else gets the token so it can also "listen" to the messages > being sent along the channel, what is stopping me from *legitimately* > giving the same token to multiple users so they can all "listen" to > the same channel? > > Thanks! > > 1 > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/channel/overview.html#Tokens_and_Security > 2 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/channel/overview.html#Caveats > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
