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)