Re: PubSubHubbub Core 0.4: Fat pings vs. normal pings

Hi,


>It currently only seems to be possible that the hub sends an update
>notification to the subscriber that contains the (full) content of the
>subscribed resource/topic (fat ping).
>
>Sending only the POST request without any content (light ping) seems to
>be a violation of the spec.
>
>Is this intentional?
>Shouldn't hubs be able to send light pings?

Reported as https://github.com/pubsubhubbub/PubSubHubbub/issues/26

Answer from julien51:

No. Hubs should only send fat pings to avoid the thundering herd
problem.


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