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Note that this may break any API libraries. For example, github2 broke. I have patched it: github.com/irskep/github2

Yes, I need github2 bad enough to patch it within two hours of it breaking. Otherwise the "Steve's last 10 Github commits" stream won't display on my site! The horror!

Edit: Scratch that. Apparently I was cloning from the wrong repository and the up-to-date version works fine.

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Sometimes it isn’t so obvious what the canonical repo is, right? That could use improvement, generally, on GitHub. E.g. a low-friction way to say, “hey, this is just a fork I made to fix a bug — don’t clone me!” etc.

The API should still allow HTTP requests. No cookies are involved, so they shouldn't be vulnerable. I would like to keep things all SSL for consistency, but I think that'll require a bit more notification to API developers.

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