ATOM and no password auth, tags, and/or private/public flags

[texodore]

Does anyone know if LJ supports any of the following through their ATOM protocol:

- tags for a post.  It's in the spec, doesn't seem like LJ handles it.
- setting a flag to declare the post private/public/friends only or for a specific group
- authentication that is not through WSSE.  An authentication mechanism that does not require a password.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Up-to-date code

I did some digging around in Trac and found what's in there right now, as you mentioned that you'd found the stuff from '05 in 6A's listing. This may be a little more useful.

http://code.livejournal.org/trac/livejournal/browser/trunk/cgi-bin/Apache/LiveJournal/Interface/AtomAPI.pm?rev=

[azurelunatic]

I'm not a dev myself, so I have a little trouble parsing the code there, but it doesn't seem like any of what you came to suggestions for is actually in there. (If someone who reads this better than I can notices these, please do let me know.)

What you want sounds like three separate suggestions:

1) Allow tags to be set for entries when posting using ATOM API.

As brought up in http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=999534:

The ATOM API allows the user to create tags for an entry when posting. The following syntax doesn't work when posting via ATOM.

http://purl.org/atom/ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

foobar

generic title

http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

...

People have been talking about this since '06...
http://www.majordojo.com/2006/05/overloading-atomcategory.php2) Allow

[azurelunatic]

I got these three suggestions posted: http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/965931.html
http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/966380.html
http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/966484.html

[pauamma]

Thanks for posting those!

[azurelunatic]

It seems like the LJ client interface with the most functionality is http://www.livejournal.com/doc/server/ljp.csp.xml-rpc.protocol.html -- if you're looking to get something built quickly, you might want to look into that, given that there's really no way to predict how long it would take to get a suggestion implemented in general.

[azurelunatic]

The post-by-email protocol also has settings: http://www.livejournal.com/manage/emailpost.bml?mode=help&type=headers

[herbie]

Owie. If you're going to set your background color, please set your text color accordingly. Those of us reading your post on normally light-on-dark themes will thank you.

[texodore]

Definitely was not intentional. HTML looks like some sort of apple mozilla issue thingy. hmm...