One Interface, Please

To deal with the increasing number of compromised blogs, WordPress 2.6 will turn off XML-RPC and AtomPUB interfaces by default.

MarsEdit developer Daniel Jalkut points out that the WordPress developers are ignoring the root cause:

If your web service only provides one, first-class API through which all access flows, then you’ve only got one point to secure, you’re likely to have feature parity across interfaces, and the risk of marginalizing one interface is dramatically decreased.

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries and posted on June 24, 2008 at 6:00 pm and filed under programming, weblogs. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the Atom feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
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