On 2013-03-11 12:26 AM, "Tyler Romeo" <tylerro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Victor Vasiliev <vasi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Finally, other than WebSocket and the socket interface, the one > > > other subscription method we should have it some sort of HTTP hook call, > > > i.e., it sends an HTTP request to the subscriber. This allows > > event-driven > > > clients without having a socket constantly open. > > > > I am not sure what exactly do you mean by that. > > > When a message is sent, it is delivered by the daemon submitting an HTTP > POST request to a registered client URI. This is a commonly used scheme for > push notification delivery, such as when using Amazon's notification > service. > > *--* > *Tyler Romeo* > Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 > Major in Computer Science > www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Wait, so it just sends http post requests to some address until explicitly told to stop? That sounds like an incredibly bad idea (if I understand it correctly) *if you forget to unsubscribe we send you post requests until the end of eternity. *dos vector - register someone you don't like's url. Register 1000000 variants from the same domain. Push enwikipedia's rc feed there. In any case, I don't see the need to have every form of push api imaginable implemented. Especially not initially but even in general. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
