On 3/12/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/03/07, Titoxd@Wikimedia titoxd.wikimedia@gmail.com wrote:
Anyways, what do you all think? Comments? Flamebait?
What's the problem with using the existing token mechanism, salted with a particular value, e.g. for watchlists? The salting code is there and it's all available.
Watchlist data isn't "private" in the sense that we need to protect it at all costs; if it *does* leak out, no-one's going to care that much...you're not really gaining access to anything hideously confidential, are you?
I thought the same thing, which is why I never implemented private watchlist feeds in WikiFeeds until last night. Since people kept requesting it and because it was only a 10 minute patch, I decided to go ahead and do it. The default behavior is still public feeds, however.
Greg