A. S. Bradbury writes: > 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).
I like it! A neat way to do that unobtrusively. Technorati use another, alternative method -- adding a snippet of (visible) HTML to your front page, which contains a magic cookie string -- but that's quite intrusive, since it leaves a lump of ugly Technorati advertising for your visitors to see. :( This method is cleaner. > 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. Good points that they note there -- some sites do not allow their users to assign any old filename. It would seem wise to offer this meta-tag-in-head method as an option too. --j. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
