[ESME-271] Provide authenticated Atom/RSS feeds of timelines

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Backlog
• Fix Version/s: Backlog
• Component/s: Server
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ethan Jewett
• Created: 05/Sep/10 09:30
• Updated: 05/Sep/10 09:40

Description

Provide authenticated RSS and Atom feed representations of various timelines, including:

User timeline: "esjewett's timeline" on http://esmecloudserverapache.dickhirsch.staxapps.net/user/esjewett
User messages: "esjewett's messages" on http://esmecloudserverapache.dickhirsch.staxapps.net/user/esjewett

I vote for the feed URLs being something like:

http://esmecloudserverapache.dickhirsch.staxapps.net/user/esjewett/timeline.rss (RSS timeline)
http://esmecloudserverapache.dickhirsch.staxapps.net/user/esjewett/timeline.xml (Atom timeline)
http://esmecloudserverapache.dickhirsch.staxapps.net/user/esjewett/messages.rss (RSS messages)
http://esmecloudserverapache.dickhirsch.staxapps.net/user/esjewett/messages.xml (Atom messages)

Regarding authentication ... well, this is a bit of an unsolved problem. Really the only authentication supported by feed readers currently is HTTP Basic. I think probably using a token over HTTP Basic authentication like is done for ESME's Twitter-like API would be a good idea. Here the HTTP Basic username is the ESME username and the password is an ESME Token and not the ESME password.

Issue Links

• is required by: ESME-272 Pubsubhubbub-enable timeline feeds