[EAS] Part 11

[Miller, Don (EMD)]

Is your firmware capable of RSS feeds now? Or is a firmware upgrade
needed.  How hard is it to hack into an RSS feed and plant a CAP alert?

Don Miller
KE7UUK
Telecommunications and Warning Systems Manager
IT Telecommunications WMD
State EOC Builidng 20
Tacoma, WA 98430-5120
(253) 512-7035 (W)
(253) 405-9446 (C)

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of Harold Price

Tom,

Though RSS appears to the user as a push - you subscribe to a feed, 
and articles show up, but behind the scenes, it is a pull - your 
browser or other RSS reader periodically fetches them for you.

In the case of CAP, the device will periodically go out to the RSS 
server and read a list of active alerts, which includes a link to the 
actual CAP message.  The CAP device can then fetch the actual CAP
message.

Polling.

Harold

At 04:53 PM 5/26/2011, Tom Taggart wrote:
>2. Proposes PUSH rather than PULL system, using RSS of CAP
>messages.  Look at page 30 of the notice for more details

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