[Web Comm] RSS Feeds

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Wed Mar 29 09:52:02 EST 2006


Jason Birch wrote:
> It still appears to be calling that site via http.
> 
> I'm a little concerned about the possibility of cross-site scripting
> attacks against us, either through direct manipulation of the external
> script, or through dns poisoning of the external site's DNS server to send
> back alternate information.  Should we ask the list if there is an
> affiliated project that would be willing to host the RSS reflector for us?

Jason,

My suggestion would be that we handle this on the OSGeo server(s) at
telascience that Norman Vine is setting up.  If you want to do something
in the shorter term, I can certain provide hosting on gdal.org.

Best regards,

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