Attention HFSLinks.com Users

Simon · 2006-05-26, 07:49 PM

I like it. It works fine for me. I logged and pasted that address into my browser and I went to the page where I could create my personal RSS feed link. I pasted that new link into Safari and the feed showed up just fine.

Will you be adding any other options to that feed? I can get the url, title and description in the feed, but not the sponsor name or the category.

I noticed that the actual feed address contains my username and password in the url. I wonder if encrypting that, or replacing it with a unique identifier of another kind, might be a good security measure.

Chop Smith · 2006-05-26, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Simon

I like it. It works fine for me. I logged and pasted that address into my browser and I went to the page where I could create my personal RSS feed link. I pasted that new link into Safari and the feed showed up just fine.

Will you be adding any other options to that feed? I can get the url, title and description in the feed, but not the sponsor name or the category.

I noticed that the actual feed address contains my username and password in the url. I wonder if encrypting that, or replacing it with a unique identifier of another kind, might be a good security measure.

Great!

Good point on the user/pass. I will get that and the options request checked out the first of the week and get back to you.

Thanks for taking your time to try it.

Chop Smith · 2006-05-31, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Simon

I noticed that the actual feed address contains my username and password in the url. I wonder if encrypting that, or replacing it with a unique identifier of another kind, might be a good security measure.

Simon, would you mind rechecking this. If the encrypting works for you, I will activate these enchancements by placing them on the menu.

Simon · 2006-05-31, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Chop Smith

Simon, would you mind rechecking this. If the encrypting works for you, I will activate these enchancements by placing them on the menu.

Chop, it looks good to me. The new version generated the feed address below, which does not contain my username/password.

feed://www.hfslinks.com/members/rss.php?auth=97004277a2&sponsor=allsponsors&category=allcategories&type=1&date=20050101&num_results=200

The feed contents do have the affiliate codes they should, so I believe you have it working now.

2006-05-26, 07:49 PM	#1
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