Hep CVS, Part 2: General Concepts
If you’ve used Hep 0.3, you’re familiar with the idea of message sources
(places you get messages from) and destinations (places you send messages to).
In the CVS version of Hep, these are replaced with connections. A connection
is a way of accessing messages in a particular location. Depending on the
type of connection, you may be able to read messages, post new messages, or
both.
To add a connection to Hep, you’ll need to give Hep a URL that tells it
how to connect. Currently the Hep messaging library supports the following types of URLs:
- http://[username:password@]server.com/path/to/file.rss (RSS and regular HTML files are supported, read only).
- blogger://username:password@server/path/to/rpc/BLOGID (Blogger API, supports reading and posting). The Metaweblog API will be supported soon.
- pop3://username:password@server (pop3 e-mail, read only)
- mailto://user@server (post only)
Once you’ve set up connections, you can read, search and post messages through
Hep’s web interface:
That’s all for today. Over the rest of the week I’ll cover:
- Message archives, and fulltext searches
- Reading and posting messages through e-mail
- Reading and posting messages through NNTP
