Re: [syndication] Re: SOAP meets RSS

[Ken MacLeod <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>]

Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com> writes:

> Dave Winer <dave@userland.com> wrote:
> 
> > Aaron, I just read the page carefully, and think I understand
> > what's going on. What's missing is what we provide in the <cloud>
> > element, a way of bridging RSS to the method being used.
> 
> That's true, there's no way to do it 0.91 -- in 1.0 you could use:
> 
> http://my.theinfo.org/changed/1.0/rss/
> 
> > <cloud domain="my.theinfo.org" port="80" path="/changed/email/"
> > registerProcedure="" protocol="http=post"/>

A firewall friendly service might allow for responding to
notifications from a variety of sources, and then forwarding them by
subscription.

A client (subscriber) connects to a notification service that has
responders of various kinds.  Every time a notification comes in, it's
passed down the subscription channel.

This could easily be set up in a transparent way on the client side.
Instead of registering to the source site directly, you register
locally, the local client then registers with the notification
service, and the notification service registers with the source site.

Safety Sam says, "Don't let peer to peer ruin your life, use
protection at all times!"

  -- Ken