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I'm not sure I understand how you would use unlisted URLs. Could you explain that more?
by toffer 19y ago
I'm not sure I understand how you would use unlisted URLs. Could you explain that more?
- brlewis 19y agoYou give your friends-only blog a link like http://example.com/unlisted/9vaekw03/ http://example.com/unlisted/9vaekw03/ Pass this link to your friends. They subscribe to its RSS feed, etc. They don't have to register with example.com. The tradeoff is that they can easily pass the link along, just as they could pass along an unlisted phone number.
- toffer 19y agoI see. That solution doesn't seem private enough to me. I may not want people to pass the link along without my say so, people could discover the URL by accident...
- brlewis 19y agoWhether or not password protection is more secure depends on how good your friends and family are at choosing and guarding passwords. If you're concerned about the one-in-a-trillion chance that a typo could lead to someone discovering your URL by accident, you could just make the random string longer.