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-Plugin to support importing updates from external RSS and Atom feeds into your timeline.
+Plugin to support importing and exporting notices through Atom and RSS feeds.
+The OStatus plugin concentrates on user-to-user cases for federating StatusNet
+and similar social networking / microblogging / blogging sites, but includes
+low-level feed subscription systems which are used by some other plugins.
+
+Uses PubSubHubbub for push feed updates; currently non-PuSH feeds cannot be
+subscribed unless an external PuSH hub proxy is used.
-Uses PubSubHubbub for push feed updates; currently non-PuSH feeds cannot be subscribed.
Configuration options available:
$config['ostatus']['hub']
(default internal hub)
- Set to URL of an external PuSH hub to use it instead of our internal hub.
+ Set to URL of an external PuSH hub to use it instead of our internal hub
+ for sending outgoing updates in user and group feeds.
$config['ostatus']['hub_retries']
(default 0)
Number of times to retry a PuSH send to consumers if using internal hub
+Settings controlling incoming feed subscription:
+
+$config['feedsub']['fallback_hub']
+ To subscribe to feeds that don't have a hub, an external PuSH proxy hub
+ such as Superfeedr may be used. Any feed without a hub of its own will
+ be subscribed through the specified hub URL instead. If the external hub
+ has usage charges, be aware that there is no restriction placed to how
+ many feeds may be subscribed!
+
+ $config['feedsub']['fallback_hub'] = 'https://superfeedr.com/hubbub';
+
+$config['feedsub']['hub_user']
+$config['feedsub']['hub_password']
+ If using the fallback hub mode, these settings may be used to provide
+ HTTP authentication credentials for contacting the hub. Default hubs
+ specified from feeds are assumed to not require
+
+
For testing, shouldn't be used in production:
$config['ostatus']['skip_signatures']
@@ -23,12 +47,11 @@ $config['feedsub']['nohub']
(default require hub)
Allow low-level feed subscription setup for feeds without hubs.
Not actually usable at this stage, OStatus will check for hubs too
- and we have no polling backend.
+ and we have no polling backend. (The fallback hub option can be used
+ with a 3rd-party service to provide such polling.)
Todo:
-* fully functional l10n
-* redo non-OStatus feed support
-** rssCloud support?
-** possibly a polling daemon to support non-PuSH feeds?
+* better support for feeds that aren't natively oriented at social networking
* make use of tags/categories from feeds
+* better repeat handling