May 16 2006
security blanket
Back when del.icio.us launched APIs to let users work directly with their data, standard HTTP Auth seemed like a good idea. It’s quick and easy to work with, and since all the data was publicly available on the site itself it provided a level of security that was sufficient for the situation. Now that we have private data in the system, we want to take steps to make it more secure and more extensible.
With that in mind, we’re announcing the rollout of a new API server: api.del.icio.us. Everything passed back and forth from the machine will be done over SSL. You will have to do a bit of URL rewriting, and we apologize for that inconvenience, but it will be consistent across all the API calls. If the old URL was:
http://del.icio.us/api/posts/get
the new URL will be:
https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/get
The three things to highlight are the use of https (for secure connections), the new server name, and the addition of a version number where the /api/ used to be. We’ll keep the old API for another six weeks to give everyone time to change over to the new URLs. Around July 1st, we’ll close it down and send a note to the requesting applications about the change.
Toby Elliott · telliott Tags: announcements bookmark this
20 Comments
l0b0 | May 17 2006 at 3:53 am
Implemented in fil.tero.us (see link) as of now.
mark | May 18 2006 at 5:27 pm
what has happened to this blog? hardly ever any posts, and look how comments have dropped off…
eahiv | May 18 2006 at 9:39 pm
I still read it. And comment. Yay for del.icio.us
Mouse | May 19 2006 at 3:05 pm
Hi,
I love Del.icio.us. I use it a lot. I’m wondering if this last change did something to the ‘related tags’ functionality, as it is no longer working for me.
Any thoughts?
Hazelip | May 21 2006 at 11:48 am
Why do you keep fucking this up? http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:filetype:mp3+funny
src | May 21 2006 at 1:03 pm
Can i make a play list for my mp3 files
so i can lisen music online!
anonymous | May 26 2006 at 3:35 pm
how to backup del.icio.us bookmarks using wget now?
crankysysadmin | Jun 13 2006 at 8:47 pm
/usr/bin/wget -O- –quiet –no-check-certificate –http-user=USERNAME –http-passwd=PASSWORD http://del.icio.us/help/api/posts…
but what I wish would work is an incremental get since the update date. That is a very hard sentence to parse.
crankysysadmin | Jun 13 2006 at 8:48 pm
Arrgh! Make that https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts…
anonymous | Jun 14 2006 at 5:54 am
interesting
rue | Jul 14 2006 at 11:27 am
Does anybody know of a wordpress plugin incorporating that change? My current one from Eric Anderson stopped working :(
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Scott Sanders | Aug 17 2006 at 7:22 pm
FeedLounge is now on the secure api as of now.
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Kurt | Feb 5 2007 at 1:20 am
Great news
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Sohbet | Feb 6 2007 at 10:51 am
You should get a cat next time and name it Leontief.