Where to put the password in moblogger-enabled e-mails?
In my Bloggar API and Titles post earlier today, Russ and I were discussing where to put a user's password (in an e-mail) when moblogging. After thinking about it for a couple of hours tonight, it suddenly came to me. The best place for the password is in the "to" field. Meaning that you give your blog's e-mail address a nickname, or type in with your password prefixed to the address, followed by a space. Basically, the "to" field will look like this: 'mypassword' [email protected]. Then you can use InternetAddress.getPersonal() to get the prefix ('mypassword'), strip off the single quotes, and use that as the password! I tried it and it works like a charm. This way, you can create a contact with your password as the name and easily blog from your mobile phone or other e-mail client.
I also added support to Roller's Blogger API implementation so if your post contains <title>, then that is used for the title. Then I made the E-Mail and IM Processors of moblogger support passing subjects as titles.
Posted by Russ on May 09, 2003 at 12:50 AM MDT #