Introduction Text feeds
Overview
Unwired’s central cloud services request feed data over HTTPS from specific feed sources described by an HTTPS URL. The data is then preprocessed and distributed to both Access Points (in case of Unwired Cloud access points with offline capabilities) or Unwired central cloud splash pages (in case of regular Unwired Cloud access points).
General specs HTTPS requests
URL and feed requirements:
HTTPS (from publicly verifiable certificate)
HTTP 1.1 GET
requestsURL is publicly accessible over the internet
Mime type must be set to application/json
No server-side rate limits
No server-side source IP firewall rules
content-type header must be set correctly including charset
example:
Content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Requirements to response time:
Generally feeds should have a response time of less than one second.
Feed types
Currently the Unwired Cloud supports two feed types with text content: