[Mediawiki-l] Re: RSS ?

ddwalker darkwalker000 at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 29 07:47:43 UTC 2005


Brion Vibber <brion at ...> writes:

> 
> ddwalker wrote:
> > Brion Vibber <brion <at> ...> writes:
> >> ddwalker wrote:
> >>> What if my wiki requires login to read?
> >> Then an RSS feed would be a security hole.
> > 
> > Yes and no. The RSS only feeds the recentlyChanged page, which doesn't 
contain
> > too much infomation. Also my web server requires login to get access to 
the
> > wiki, which is another layer of security.
> 
> The Recentchanges feeds include diffs of content on changes, and full content 
of
> new pages.
> 
> > So the question is, can I set the RecentlyChanged page to readable and the 
RSS
> > would work?
> 
> Try it and see...?
> 

I tried it and yes it worked. And yes, you're right that the feed gives 
the diff, which I don't want to reveal. Is there any other way around?

Thanks!






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