On Thursday 02 March 2006 02:37, joshua schachter wrote: > We're working on having an API for people to get at the tags and > bookmarks for sites they own -- any authentication ideas? > > Joshua
I take it you mean verifying that you own the site you are trying to extract this data for? In which case, google sitemaps face a practically identical problem. The current authentication scheme [http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/verify.html] is to get the site owner to upload an empty file with a certain name. The ability to do this indicates site ownership (this scheme works well when sites are hosted under subdirectories or subdomains too). They've proposed and alternative method [http://sitemaps.blogspot.com/2006/02/wed-like-your-feedback-on-potential_22.html]. I don't like the idea of being forced to add extra cruft to my html, but as an alternative I suppose it makes sense. ASB _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
