Generate correct embeds for Youtube videos in Atom/RSS

[jwz]

Title
Generate correct embeds for Youtube videos in Atom/RSS

Short, concise description of the idea
Livejournal should generate correct HTML in RSS/Atom for LJ entries which contain Youtube videos.

Full description of the ideaWhen I make a Livejournal post with a Youtube video in it, the RSS and Atom feeds that LiveJournal generates for it are wrong

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Thank you very much for the illustrative example. That song has been in my head all week.

[andy]

As much as this idea is reasonable, there is a security issue involved here - I don't think that it's possible to insert an iframe in an RSS feed, so it will need to insert Flash embeds w/o an iframe, which possibly would enable hackers to do some hideous things. As such, there would need to be maintained a whitelist of 3rd party sites we can trust not to do that, which adds some work for the Support people, etc.

[jwz]

That doesn't make any sense.

*I* posted an embed to *my* journal.

I would like the *characters that I typed* to show up in the *RSS feed of my journal*.

I did not type an iframe. I do not want it to emit an iframe. I want it to emit literally what I posted.

[andy]

Sorry I didn't explain that clearly. See, if I post a Flash embed that steals user's cookie files, it will steal your cookie files for LiveJournal when you see my post, too. And if I then use these cookies I've stolen from you, I could misrepresent myself to LiveJournal to play with your user data. Does that make sense?

[andy]

And that is the very reason LJ restricts inserting iframes/JavaScript in user content altogether; that's also why LJ emits iframes - this is to put embeds in a different "security sandbox" where users' cookies are in principle not accessible.

[charliemc]

Yes, please.

Migrated

[boredinsomniac]

This change has been migrated for future implementation.

LJSV-106

[rocketsan]

Request for API to get embed contents by its ID ().