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Post by teko_ji » Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 8:35 AM UTC

NickBusey wrote: post #92

miki123211 wrote: post #85

If you need something like that, go for a Telegram bot. It's really simple to make, the API is very nice and developer friendly. It's not oAuth, just a simple secret. It even accepts parameters via GET, so writing a bash script that check something and sends a message via Curl is pretty easy. There are few APIs simpler than this one. This is also more efficient, as your app only sends data out when it needs to, inste…

I created a Telegram bot for one of my apps, but had to remove Telegram from my phone/computer after their terrible handling of Facebook linking. I made the mistake of linking my Telegram account to my Facebook account, which gave me the wonderful 'feature' of getting a notification any time one of my (due to the linked account being promotional) thousands of friends joined Telegram. These notifications play at any t…

Post by re_dmitriy » Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 8:52 AM UTC

kam wrote: post #17

beefhash wrote: post #7

> Request signature format(crc): [time_stamp]_[md5(time_stamp+secret_key)] This should probably be an HMAC construction at the very least, and MD5 in general just should be discarded entirely in favor of BLAKE2b, SHA-2 or SHA-3. And ideally, it'd actually validate the rest of the contents as well.

Also the example PHP code doesn't validate the age of the passed timestamp so you could just replay a "signature" indefinitely... Given that, you might as well just use an unchanging token or Basic Auth. Assuming https, that wouldn't be terrible for this kind of use case. But put it in an Authorization header, not in a query parameter, so it doesn't end up in logs.

Post by miki123211 » Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 11:08 AM UTC

xg15 wrote: post #91

miki123211 wrote: post #85

If you need something like that, go for a Telegram bot. It's really simple to make, the API is very nice and developer friendly. It's not oAuth, just a simple secret. It even accepts parameters via GET, so writing a bash script that check something and sends a message via Curl is pretty easy. There are few APIs simpler than this one. This is also more efficient, as your app only sends data out when it needs to, inste…

I think the linked app is more supposed for one-off use-cases - e.g., you're a dev/admin and want to keep an eye on some web service. You could write a simple endpoint in python and have the app poll it over LAN. I think not needing to bother with any kind of third-party is hard to beat in terms of simplicity. > I don't think this app will ever work on iOS, due to Apple's policies. I've not much experience on iOS, so…

Post by re_dmitriy » Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 12:58 PM UTC

firefoxd wrote: post #42

I think this is a simple and neat tool. Thank you for building it, and congratulations for launching.

Post by re_dmitriy » Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 1:05 PM UTC

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #21

geoah wrote: post #15

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This would be nice for websites and services users want to get push notifications from. I get that html5 notifications should be able to do this at some point but there is still merit in having another way of getting stuff to your phone and possibly desktop.

Thing is, it does not offer push notifications. It's very opposite of that - the app seems to just poll the service with regular intervals.