Re: [syndication] Syndication Subscription

[Rael Dornfest <rael@oreilly.com>]

I think you must have just been sitting on the couch at my house.  Not 5
minutes ago I was thinking about this very subject.  And the function list
is identical :-o

On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> It seems that there's a strong need for a publish-and-subscribe system for
> news syndication. Rather than having aggregators constantly check for
> updates, they could be notified about them using XML-RPC. To start a
> discussion, here are a list of functions that seem necessary:
> 
> PUBLISHER FUNCTIONS
> getPublications() - Returns a list of publicationIDs.
> 
> subscribePublication(publicationID,url) - Subscribes the XML-RPC handler at
> URL to publicationID. For security reasons, we might require that url be on
> the same machine that makes the request. Returns a subscriptionID. If the
> machine is already subscribed, return the old subscriptionID. Machines are
> automatically unsubscribed if the server cannot reach them for a specified
> number of times. 
> 
> unsubscribePublication(subscriptionID) - Unsubscribe from a publication.
> 
> getStoriesSince(publicationID,time) - Gets the new stories for publicationID
> since 'time'.
> 
> 
> SUBSCRIBER FUNCTIONS
> 
> newStory(subscriptionID,storyID...) - Notifies about a new story.
> 
> 
> Obviously, I'm leaving out a lot, such as specification of the format for
> story information. However, this should be a good starting point to get a
> discussion going. I look forward to hearing what others think.
> 
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