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Following project description moved from Student projects. --Helen Foster 14:05, 24 April 2008 (CDT)

Secure RSS feeds

Currently RSS is less than useful because:

  • Either we can't publish private information to the outside world because it's too sensitive.
  • We open up sensitive information to the outside world

We should add codes to make the RSS URLs practically impossible to guess, much the same way as Google Calendar does it.

  • Overhaul all the RSS feeds in Moodle to make use of a long hash-like string in the URL for identification (Forums, Data etc). We already have a mechanism for managing these, developed for the grade export reports, called user_key_login.
  • Add RSS to other areas of Moodle such as the participants "last logins" and the activity logs.
  • Explore/research other methods of opening up RSS in a safe way to the outside world.

Comments

Thanks for your work on this very important issue. I am looking forward for your results. If you need help with testing a release candidate I'd volunteer. --Raphael Fetzer 01:07, 6 August 2008 (CDT)