On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:31:30 +1300 Michael JasonSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:18, Nick Rout wrote: > > Thanks for clarification. the weather thing i can handle by observation. > > I am using liferea for rss/rdf/atom feeds, i see i have straw on the > > system as well and will give it a go too. > Straw has quite a nice little Biff-like feature, as it puts an icon in > the Panel Notification Area whenever it has more news. Click the icon > and Straw presents itself with the new story shown. > > > will straw connect to your gmail account and get new subject lines? > I do not have a GMail account to test it on, but Straw does support Atom > and both RSS variants. what it really needs to support is https and secure storage of the password. liferea can use any arbitrary command to get a feed and the standard advertised way to get a gmail feed in their FAQ is to use: curl -u username:password https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom however this leaves the password in the comfig file, which is world readable, and also it gets stored in a cache which is also world readable (yes I have reported this to the liferea people, yes there is a better way, an only slightly more complicated script, just not sure what will then appear in the cache, thats tonight's exercise) > -- > Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/ > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
