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I fixed up the Rss Admin feeds so that modifying web.config (along with new handler classes) would not needed to add a new Admin Rss feed.
Also added a simple form to allow administrators to created their own. It is a bit limited, but adding additional options should not be to hard. Though those will have to wait till a later date.
On a side note, I found that if I had the option of returning the non-generic base class, or a generic subclass it makes the code a lot more flexible if you return the non-generic base class if you do not have a need to have...
posted @ Sunday, April 20, 2008 6:34 PM |
I just committed the changes to provide 3 administrative rss feeds: Comments Needing Moderation Referrals Errors The change also uses the HttpModule that will convert forms authentication into basic authentication so that the feeds can be viewed in an Rss reader. After seeing http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa479391.aspx I had thought about changing over to use it instead of the simple module I wrote. I decided not to however because it would have meshed well with Subtexts security model. This was one of the more interesting things I have worked on in a while, though I am already thinking of several improvements that...
posted @ Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:51 AM |
I figured out what was happening in my previous post. It makes a bit more sense now that I have seen it, being able to just stop working on something is handy, basically the Rss feeds don't do URL rewriting. So the call to /test1/Admin/ModeratedCommentRss.aspx uses the /web.config and would use the /test1/Admin/web.config, but it has no reason to look at the /Admin/web.config.
Not completely sure how I should change this. Right now I have the ModeratedCommentRss.aspx checking to see if the requestor is an Admin, and if not it calls FormsAuthentication.RedirectToLoginPage(). This works, but I would rather a solution that didn't...
posted @ Sunday, September 16, 2007 4:19 PM |
I decided to implement Admin Rss Feeds after a particularly draining Friday. For the most part it went pretty smoothly, and learned something about working with a different team too ;). I Implemented an HttpModule that looked for FormsAuthentication redirects for rss feeds and changed it over to use basic authentication so rss readers could authenticate.
And for a while all was good. In fact other then unit tests I had thought I was done.
Then just to be thorough I set up several subfolder blogs off of localhost, and everything stopped working. Apparently something in the way that the rss HttpHandlers...
posted @ Sunday, September 16, 2007 3:02 AM |
Well the blog alias feature is in, and the self spam in my referral section has reduced significantly since I started using it last night. Its also nice not seeing Google and Yahoo spidering my blog on 4 different domains (still don't know how they got 2 of them). How To Use Blog edit screen has a list all the domain aliases, and a button to add a new alias. If an alias is found, redirects request to the associated blog. Aliases can be at both the host and subfolder level.Note: Requests are validated against blogs...
posted @ Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:08 AM |