Re: Is that an HTTP server in your Cocoa application or are you just pleased to see me?

Brent Simmons — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:41:15 -0000

Very early betas of NetNewsWire actually embedded an http server. This was before Lite 1.0 shipped.

It handled just one type of request, a request to subscribe to a feed. The idea was that people could put a button on their site that linked to a url like http://127.0.0.1:5335/subscribe?url=http://some... -- and the request would then go to NetNewsWire on your desktop, which would subscribe to the feed. Easy one-click subscribing.

It wasn't my idea -- Radio UserLand was already doing this, and we figured we had to do the same thing.

(But then there was the issue of how to manage two aggregators that want to listen to the same port -- and then more apps that would come along and want to listen on that port too. I decided to remove the http server before it became something to fight over.)

But anyway -- I always thought the idea was interesting, that connection between web page and the desktop. (It doesn't have to be feed-subscribing, of course.)

Re: Feed Me - Question About NetNewsWire OPML & Publishing to Weblog

Brent Simmons — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:39:39 -0000

Check out the NetNewsWire Subs to HTML script:

http://www.lazyi.net/archives/2005/09/24/nnw-subs-to-html/

PS You can find more NetNewsWire scripts here: http:/anchero.com/netnewswireesources/scripts.php

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