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title: "In search of: A server reference implementation of the Atom Publishing Protocol?"
date: 2006-04-03T13:38:23-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2006/04/03/in-search-of-a-server-reference-implementation-of-the-atom-publishing-protocol/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [asides]
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# In search of: A server reference implementation of the Atom Publishing Protocol?

 <p>At some point soon, I'm going to want to start playing with the Atom Publishing Protocol for use with <a href="http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/03/25/about-xoxooutliner">XoxoOutliner</a>, among other things.</p>
 <p>Can anyone point me toward a reference implementation of a server end-point against which I can bounce a client?  I'm lazy, and don't feel like combing mailing lists / Google searches yet if someone in my reading audience has the scoop.</p>

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            <div class="content"><p>I trust you will post links if you find anything, I have been looking for this too.</p></div>
            
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            <div class="content"><p>You might want to check out Demokritos</p>

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            <div class="content"><p>I don't think there's anything that could be considered a reference implementation at this stage, but a number of people have made servers available for interop testing. The ones I have URLs for are listed below.</p>

<p>James Tauber:
  http://pyworks.org:8000/introspection</p>

<p>Joe Gregorio:
  http://bitworking.org/projects/pyapp/collection.cgi?introspection=1</p>

<p>At this stage they should be password free, so please don't abuse them. If you have questions or are looking for more sites to test with try asking in #atom on freenode.</p></div>
            
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            <div class="content"><p>I just put up <a href="http://necronomicorp.com/atompub" rel="nofollow">http://necronomicorp.com/atompub</a>. Only the 'testatom' collection is open.</p></div>
            
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