Parameter-based access control
is now up and running on the site - but applies only to admins at this point. Will roll it out to everyone once I've tested everything.

Had to update the clipper so that it knows how to retrieve the page images under the new approach.

It's quite cool to be able to grab a page image URL and access it directly in another browser - for about a minute. After that the timestamp parameter automatically expires the link and we deny access. There might be opportunities there for use in promotions? Could generate links to page images with one-month expiry etc. These could then be served without any login preamble.

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Labels: release

- posted by Tim Bruce @ 4:10 PM