LJ from a firehose
2005-09-15 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearIf you have a reasonably fast connection, just type this incantation into your shell window:
This, kiddies, is (more-or-less) why Google, etc. will happily index your posts even if you make them friends-only immediately after posting them -- they will already have hit the feed at that point. (Actually, this is a brand-new-today hack, but the problem can occur through other paths -- as long as there's a small window during which a post is public, somebody will see it.) The solution is to mark the post as friends-only before you post it.
Oh, you do all know about blogsearch.google.com, right? (From![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
finagler / ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
docbug_feed)
telnet updates.sixapart.com 80and don't forget that blank line at the end! The result will be a real-time Atom (XML) feed of every public posting on LJ. (Visit updates.sixapart.com in a browser to learn more.)
GET /atom-stream.xml HTTP/1.0
Host: updates.sixapart.com
This, kiddies, is (more-or-less) why Google, etc. will happily index your posts even if you make them friends-only immediately after posting them -- they will already have hit the feed at that point. (Actually, this is a brand-new-today hack, but the problem can occur through other paths -- as long as there's a small window during which a post is public, somebody will see it.) The solution is to mark the post as friends-only before you post it.
Oh, you do all know about blogsearch.google.com, right? (From
finagler / docbug_feed)