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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 - JSON data is wrapped in a [XEP-0335] container.
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14 - An Atom feed may have many `<entry>` and each one is published as
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15 its own PubSub item.
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16 - Other XML is simply published to a randomly named item as-is.
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18 # Configuration
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20 ## Authentication
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22 Authentication can be handled in two different ways.
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24 ### None
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26 ``` {.lua}
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27 pubsub_post_actor = "superuser"
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28 ```
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30 The module uses an internal actor that has all privileges and can always
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31 do everything. It is strongly suggested that you do not expose this to
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32 the Internet. *Maybe* it shouldn't be the default...
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34 ### IP
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36 ``` {.lua}
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37 pubsub_post_actor = "request.ip"
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38 ```
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40 Uses the IP address from the HTTP request as actor, which means this
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41 pseudo-JID must be given a 'publisher' affiliation. This should work
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42 nicely with the `autocreate_on_publish` setting, where the first actor
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43 to attempt to publish to a non-existant node becomes owner of it, which
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44 includes publishing rights.
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46 Prosodys PubSub module supports [setting affiliations via
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47 XMPP](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html#owner-affiliations), in
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48 trunk since [revision
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49 384ef9732b81](https://hg.prosody.im/trunk/rev/384ef9732b81).
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51 It can however be done from another plugin:
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53 ``` {.lua}
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54 local mod_pubsub = module:depends("pubsub");
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55 local pubsub = mod_pubsub.service;
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57 pubsub:create("princely_musings", true);
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58 pubsub:set_affiliation("princely_musings", true, "127.0.0.1", "publisher");
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59 ```