From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:16:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31t2o5u16.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760s0bgg5.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:13:30 -0400")
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> I suggest making the token automatic, stored in auth-source and
> generated on demand (so it will be local to the user).
That is generally not possible. To get an imgur token you have to
register yourself on their web site and exchange some emails, and then
you get a token.
> The auth-source code supports that case, except for the actual token
> generation. The default choice can be a generic token for each
> service, but I doubt the FSF/GNU team wants to maintain such a thing,
> and it would be easy to abuse it.
It doesn't really matter that much. imgur rate-limits per IP address,
not per token.
Other services probably have other rules. :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-20 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-29 12:21 imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-06-29 12:38 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-06-30 15:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-06-30 15:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-06-30 16:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-06-30 23:20 ` Richard Stallman
2016-06-30 17:57 ` Richard Stallman
2016-06-30 18:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-01 22:03 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-02 0:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-03 0:06 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-05 2:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-20 11:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-07-20 13:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-20 13:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-07-20 13:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-20 13:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-07-20 15:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-20 16:41 ` [OFFTOPIC] " Stefan Monnier
2016-07-20 17:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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