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Re: imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services |
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Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:16:37 +0200 |
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Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> 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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- Re: imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services, Richard Stallman, 2016/07/01
- Re: imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/01
- Re: imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services, Richard Stallman, 2016/07/02
- Re: imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/04
- Re: imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/07/20
- Re: imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/20
- Re: imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- Re: imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/20
- Re: imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/07/20
- Re: imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/20
- [OFFTOPIC] Re: imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services, Stefan Monnier, 2016/07/20
- Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: imgur.el and small packages to interface with commercial services, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/07/20