Re: [Fofredux-devel] introduction

[Benjamin S. <bs...@cr...>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 01:28:50PM -0500, Katie Bechtold wrote:
> Hi!  I'm a bit late to the party, but I'm a new developer on
> fofredux.  I've been a feedonfeeds user for a while, and like many
> of you, I was impatient to see some development happen, so I
> tinkered with my own installation while awaiting a fork of the
> project, which I'm excited to see.  I've migrated several bugs and
> feature requests from feedonfeeds to fofredux.

I'll leave it to Andy or someone else to say a more extended thanks, but
the short version is:  Awesome, thanks!

> One of the "customizations" I hacked on to my installation of
> feedonfeeds was to add my own cookies in magpierss's
> _fetch_remote_file() function, because I wanted LiveJournal to
> recognize me and give me my friends' friends-locked-entry feed items 
> in addition to the public ones.  

Oh, good hack -- I had exactly the same problem, and tried using
variations on some of the published hacks for passing passwords to
feeds, but they don't work for LJ (as discussed somewhere on LJ).

On the one hand, though, I think that that patch should end up in
magpie.  On the other hand, there *has* to be an interface for getting
those cookies into your subscriptions, so at least part of it has to be
in the magpie clients.

I've never looked at magpie's code, and I don't know how you implemetned
it, but off the top of my head, there should be an API separation here
that should look something like this:

Magpie's methods should take cookies for feeds as an optional argument,
and then FORF can store and pass those cookies to magpie.  

> I'd be interested in adding this sort of functionality in a less
> kludge-y and more generalized way, but I'm still looking into whether
> and how magpierss might support that.  

Er, right.  See above.  Magpie probably shouldn't know anything about
storage of cookies, and should only take them as another parameter.  

--Benjy