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1 # Introduction
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3 Lets you easily publish data to PubSub using a HTTP POST request. The
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4 payload can be Atom feeds, arbitrary XML, or arbitrary JSON. The type
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5 should be indicated via the `Content-Type` header.
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7 ``` {.bash}
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8 curl http://localhost:5280/pubsub_post/princely_musings \
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9 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
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10 --data-binary '{"musing":"To be, or not to be: that is the question"}'
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11 ```
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13 # Configuration
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15 ## Authentication
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17 Authentication can be handled in two different ways.
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19 ### None
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21 ``` {.lua}
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22 pubsub_post_actor = "superuser"
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23 ```
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25 The module uses an internal actor that has all privileges and can always
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26 do everything. It is strongly suggested that you do not expose this to
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27 the Internet. *Maybe* it shouldn't be the default...
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29 ### IP
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31 ``` {.lua}
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32 pubsub_post_actor = "request.ip"
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33 ```
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35 Uses the IP address from the HTTP request as actor, which means this
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36 pseudo-JID must be given a 'publisher' affiliation. This should work
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37 nicely with the `autocreate_on_publish` setting, where the first actor
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38 to attempt to publish to a non-existant node becomes owner of it, which
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39 includes publishing rights.
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41 Prosodys PubSub module does not currently support [setting affiliations
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42 via XMPP](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html#owner-affiliations),
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43 but this is planned.
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45 It can however be done from another plugin:
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47 ``` {.lua}
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48 local mod_pubsub = module:depends("pubsub");
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49 local pubsub = mod_pubsub.service;
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51 pubsub:create("princely_musings", true);
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52 pubsub:set_affiliation("princely_musings", true, "127.0.0.1", "publisher");
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53 ```