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by MrRowTheBoat 897 days ago
So far the worst thing is that someone is trying to actively stop my service from being functional? Idk, I guess it's more fun than other things?

Anyways they mass created hashmaps using UUIDs. Someone lower in the comments made a great point on this, unfortunately this is why people have to crack down on things and require accounts and stuff like that before you can use a service.

:) Service is up and running, but we'll see for how long.

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Great idea putting all actions behind a token. This removes most types of abuse.

Still, a great place to backup my video library!

I once thought about doing this using RDF/Tuple based data where most elements are forced to be UUID-4's (whose purpose and meaning are invisible) except for values. I imagined a public service without a token.

I would like to see being usable from a browser (with the key, value and token as query parameters):

https://hashmap.me?key=key1&value=value1&token=tony-test-d87...

Thanks so much for the suggestion and checking me out.

I think for Read it makes a ton of sense to be able to provide a key to only get that specific key from your dataset.

I could add support for allowing you to use your token in the url to avoid headers, but to be very clear that token should NEVER be exposed to other users or to the public, that token isn't changeable, and if another user has it they can modify your dataset. Maybe I could add read only tokens at some point?

With your exact URL above, are you proposing the ability to Write data from the browser? I see you're providing a value so it lead me to believe you're suggesting writing a key/value pair with your token from the browser