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XMPP MUC Utility bot
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RSS: Ligrev could log into the forum to see `<author>` #59

Open cburschka opened 8 years ago

cburschka commented 8 years ago

Apparently, if you're logged in while requesting the RSS feed, you get an <author> element. (Might require forum mod or admin privileges though?)

Unfortunately, the <author> element is the user's email, so for it to really be useful Ligrev would also need to tap into the user database and do a reverse lookup on that.

sylae commented 8 years ago

Could be interesting. One problem, though, with having Ligrev log in is that you would end up getting RSS notifications for anything non-public that Ligrev is a member of (like mod board, etc). iirc that's not the case here but something to watch out for.

cburschka commented 8 years ago

There's also an issue with splicing authentication stuff into the current code with minimal hard-coding.

What I last experimented with was something like this: https://github.com/cburschka/ligrev/tree/issue-59-rss-auth

The cookie part isn't quite working yet, though.