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Re:Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox by icebraining on Friday February 03, 2012 @01:09PM (#3548164)
I don't see anything that ties people to a single aggregator, and it's not common for Mozilla to design for that. From the spec[1] it seems they're designing a system where client has to accept any URL to notify and any server can work as long as they accept POST request with certain parameters.

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Notifications/Push/API

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Re:Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox by jbalogh on Friday February 03, 2012 @02:05PM (#3548378)
Right, one of the goals of the design is to not lock in any one aggregator. We just need to standardize the server API so other apps don't have to care who they're talking to.
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Re:Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox by AndrewDucker on Friday February 03, 2012 @01:17PM (#3548198)
Looking at the higher level document* the Post Office seems to require the Mozilla ID. It's possible that that just means "A unique ID for that server", but I'd like that to be explicit.

* https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Notifications/Push#Post_Of...

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Re:Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox by jbalogh on Friday February 03, 2012 @02:01PM (#3548360)
Like all wikis, that document was way out of date.
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