RE: MW API CORS for *

I don't see a(n easy) way to do change the API like that, Doug. But, as I
already told others today, we might need custom APIs sooner or later, so
maybe that is something to think about.

Write operations through the API require authentication, which needs to be
done via POST, btw.

-fro


-----Original Message-----
From: Julee [mailto:julee@adobe.com] 
Sent: Freitag, 10. Mai 2013 22:34
To: Doug Schepers; Max Polk
Cc: David Kirstein; public-webplatform@w3.org
Subject: Re: MW API CORS for *

Would we want to allow anyone to GET and create a hurdle for PUT, POST,
and DELETE?


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-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
Date: Friday, May 10, 2013 1:09 PM
To: Max Polk <maxpolk@gmail.com>
Cc: David Kirstein <frozenice@frozenice.de>, "public-webplatform@w3.org"
<public-webplatform@w3.org>
Subject: Re: MW API CORS for *

>Hi, Max-
>
>On 5/10/13 3:57 PM, Max Polk wrote:
>> It's all about content and brand. How willing is webplatform to let
>> another site consume content and present it as their own, even formatted
>> as copyrighted results with no attribution?
>>
>> Google for example forbids web search result data to be rendered on
>> another site where it can reformat and present it as their own, just to
>> preserve content and brand.
>>
>> While any remote service can call the WPD API directly, to then serve it
>> up as its own, its a central call on behalf of all the users of that
>> site. It is easily identified, and if abused, blocked.
>>
>> But with cross-origin requests each user's browser is making the call on
>> the behalf of the permitted origin. Opening it up wide will be
>> interpreted as "free, unencumbered," to some.
>>
>> Just how free is the API data?
>
>Good question.
>
>My impulse is to say "totally free" since what we're looking for is the
>spread of good, complete, accurate information.... but our license
>(which is in part an obligation to our contributors) is CC-BY.  Could we
>rig the API so that it delivers a small link back to the site (and if
>the query was page-specific, to the page) in the content?
>
>We want to be friendly to consumers of our content, let them restyle and
>reformat the attribution link in whatever way works for their use, so it
>would be good to explore options with them.
>
>Regards-
>-Doug
>