Re: PubSubHubbub Core 0.4: Acceptance of a subscription request

Hi,


>Does the client/subscriber have to see a subscription as being
>"accepted" until he gets a "denied" state on his callback URL?
>
>Why is there no "subscription accepted" call to the callback URL?
>
>Also, why does the callback not get the signature passed for requests
>with hub.mode=denied?
>Bad people could fake unsubscription confirmations without it.

Reported as https://github.com/pubsubhubbub/PubSubHubbub/issues/29

Answer by julien51:

There's no need for a "subscription accepted" call for the subscriber
for the exact same reason given in #27: the subscriber has the last
word. If the subscriber accepts the verification of intent, the
subscription should be considered successful (hence no need to inform
him of the same thing twice).

Your second point may be valid though (I have to think more about it!).
However, I think the subscriber should not consider the subscription
successful until he's confirm the intent. So, if it gets a denial
first, and then a verification of intent, the subscriber
could/should(?) consider that his subscription has eventually been
validated by the publisher.

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Regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Christian Weiske

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Received on Thursday, 12 March 2015 07:52:02 UTC