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diff --git a/plugins/RSSCloud/README b/plugins/RSSCloud/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8fd281aab --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/RSSCloud/README @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +This plugin enables RSSCloud (http://rsscloud.org/) publishing and +subscription handling for RSS 2.0 profile feeds (i.e: +http://SITE/PATH/api/statuses/user_timeline/USERNAME.rss). When the +plugin is enabled, StatusNet acts as both the publisher and hub ('writer' and +'cloud' in RSSCloud parlance), but only for local StatusNet feeds. It's +not possible to use it as a general purpose hub -- for instance you can't +subscribe and get updates to a Wordpress feed from StatusNet. + +To use the plugin, add the following to your config.php: + + addPlugin('RSSCloud'); + +Enabling the plugin will add a <cloud> element to your RSS 2.0 profile feeds +that looks like this: + + <cloud domain="SITE" port="80" path="/main/rsscloud/request_notify" + registerProcedure="" protocol="http-post"/> + +Aggregators may subscribe by sending a proper REST RSSCloud subscription +request (the optional 'domain' parameter with challenge is supported). +Subscribing aggregators will be notified ('pinged') when users they have +subscribed to post new notices. Currently, REST is the only protocol +supported for notifications. + +Deamon +------ + +There's also a daemon for offline processing of queued notices with +RSSCloud destinations, which will start automatically if/when you run +scripts/startdaemons.sh. + +Notes +----- + +- Again, only RSS 2.0 profile feeds may be subscribed to, and they have + be the ones with user names in them, like: + http://SITE/PATH/api/statuses/user_timeline/USERNAME.rss +- Subscriptions are deleted after three notification failures in a row + (not sure this is optimal). +- The plugin includes a dummy LoggingAggregator class that can be used + for end-to-end testing. You probably don't want to mess with it. + +TODO +---- + +- Figure out why the RSSCloudSubcription can't ->delete() or ->update() +- Support pinging via XML-RPC and SOAP +- Automatically delete subscriptions? Point of reference: Dave's hub + implementation auto-deletes them after 25 hours. WordPress never deletes them. +- Support additional feed URL addresses for the same feed (e.g.: by numeric ID, + ?user_id=xxx, etc.) +- Support additional feeds that make sense (e.g: replies)? +- Possibly use "rssCloud" (like Dave) instead of "RSSCloud" everywhere |