Protocol
Updating an Atom Entry
To update an Atom entry, it is recommended that clients first retrieve a complete representation of that entry, as it is not guaranteed that an <entry> element contained within an Atom feed will have all the information about that entry...
Six Apart Atom Link Relations
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Retrieving an Atom Entry
To retrieve a single entry on a weblog in Atom format, one first needs to discover the URI from which to retrieve the entry. This URI is easily discovered by inspecting an Atom feed. Each <entry> element should contain a...
Retrieving a List of Weblogs
To retrieve a list of weblogs associated with a user's account via Atom, one need only perform an authenticated HTTP GET against the requisite URL corresponding to each Six Apart product....
Retrieving a List of Categories
Before a client can retrieve a list of categories associated with a weblog or collection (such as a photo album), the client must first retrieve the URL associated with the service.categories link relation found in the Atom Introspection document (see...
Retrieving a List of Atom Entries
To obtain a list of the posts in a selected weblog you must first discover the Atom endpoint corresponding to that weblog. That is accomplished by inspecting the weblog’s autodiscovery document (see Atom Autodiscovery). Once you have the URL to...
Overview of the Atom Protocol
The Atom Protocol provides the means by which applications can publish content using ubiquitous Internet protocols and standards, like HTTP and the Atom Syndication Format. The publishing protocol defines four simple verbs: GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, or read, create,...
Deleting an Atom Entry
To delete an Atom entry, clients to first retrieve the service.edit URL associated with the entry they wish to delete (see retrieving an Atom Entry). Once your client has retrieved this URI, the client performs an authentication HTTP DELETE operation...
Creating an Atom Entry
Once a client retrieves the service.post URI for the weblog or collection it wishes to create the entry within, the client can post an Atom <entry> element representing the entry to be created via an authenticated HTTP POST operation to...
Atom Introspection Overview
An introspection document provides clients with the necessary information to formulate a request and send to a system. Six Apart provides introspection documents to clients in the form of an Atom feed. This Atom feed contains the references necessary for...
Atom Autodiscovery
Auto-discovery is the process by which a user can determine the proper URL (or URLs) for directing Atom and XML-RPC requests for a weblog. Every Six Apart weblog publishes an RDF file, compliant with the industry standard for this file...
Atom Authentication
Six Apart Atom implementations all support WSSE based authentication. WSSE is a form of authentication that involves taking a password and encrypting in such a way that it is safe to use over a unencrypted connection....
