secure/private subscriptions

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secure/private subscriptions #138

Closed dch closed 11 years ago

dch commented 12 years ago

I see a use case for businesses that want to support a microblogging API for, say, service interruptions, or notifications, that are secure & private:

This would entail a few changes:

subscription request would return a 202
an event would generated to allow the external API to accept or reject the subscription
user should be able to unsubscribe again, following same actions as above
the messages would not be visible to non-subscribers

Thoughts?

mattflaschen commented 12 years ago

By subscription, you mean following, right?

dch commented 12 years ago

Yup, in principle you can use the same API, but in practice I think it's useful to differentiate between open and closed accounts.

orianmarx commented 11 years ago

I'm closing this thread as I think much of this scenario can now be accomplished using the Messaging API http://developers.app.net/docs/basics/messaging/