RSSFeeds
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In a very old version of Aigaion, we had RSS feeds of new topics and publications.
Since we have anonymous access, different per-object access rights and such things, it is harder to think of a good design for such a feed. Should anyone be able to se the RSS feed of all publications? RSS does not have functionality for loggin in to a site...
Maybe we should have something like a 'private RSS link' per login (much like the private rss links of Google). This RSS feed woul give exactly all publications that are visible to that user. For security, people would be reminded to change their private RSS link every now and then...
Any comments?
Go ahead, add your comments and suggestions, start a the design...
If it gets too messy, I'll relate it to a forum thread too.
Hello,
I understand the problem of free access, but in my case the RSS feature would be very useful. The publication base I made is to be consulted by many people (researchers) but edited by few of them. The publication list is public but the attachements aren't, for copyrights restriction. With a RSS feed everyone could be aware of a new publication post but it would'nt be a privacy problem. Is there a way to add this feature from the old version to my install ?
Thanks
Well... an RSS feed for only the public entries would not be too hard to build, I guess. [some time later: yes, it was not hard to build. In SVN you find a very simple RSS access for public entres. Just point the browser to <aigaionroot>/rss/publicstream. Implementation is not very elegant, but it serves....]