Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Journal topic names

[Kragen S. <kra...@ai...>]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 11:09:45AM +1100, Robert Leftwich wrote:
> What is the history/rationale for the naming of journal topics, esp. the /s 
> after the client id/anonymous ?
> 
> i.e. most of the client libraries use something similar to 
> server_url/who/anonymous/s/random_string/kn_journal

Well, we thought you might want to have a lot of stuff in /who/robert,
such as your persistent subscriptions, the topic on which you publish
your current availability status, and maybe topics where various things
that belong to you publish information about themselves.  So we put your
sessions down in /who/robert/s so they wouldn't collide with other topics
you'd created, and so you wouldn't have to wade through all your previous
sessions to find the place you'd stashed your consolidated RSS feed.