Update the post docs adding https://github.com/redmatrix/hubzilla/issues/67

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/doc/api_posting.bb b/doc/api_posting.bb
index fa9558268..c708ad143 100644
--- a/doc/api_posting.bb
+++ b/doc/api_posting.bb
@@ -4,19 +4,20 @@ The API allows you to post to the red# by HTTP POST request. Below you see an ex
 
 [code]curl -ssl -u [color=blue]$E-Mail[/color]:[color=blue]$Password[/color] -d "[color=blue]$Parameters[/color]" [url][observer=1][observer.baseurl][/observer][observer=0]example.com[/observer]/api/statuses/update
 [/url][/code]
-[table][tr][td]$E-Mail:[/td][td]The E-Mail Adress you use to login[/td][/tr]
+[table][tr][td]$E-Mail:[/td][td]The E-Mail Address you use to login, or the channel nickname (without the hostname)[/td][/tr]
 [tr][td]$Password:[/td][td]The Password you use to login[/td][/tr]
 [tr][td]$Parameters:[/td][td]That's the interesting part, here you insert the content you want to send using the following parameters:[/td][/tr][/table]
 
 [ul]
 [*]title: the title of the posting
-[*]channel: the channel you want to post to 
+[*]channel: the channel you want to post to (do not use this parameter with HTTP Basic auth)
 [*]category: a comma-seperated list of categories for the posting
 [*]status: the content of the posting, formatted with BBCode
                                 OR
 [*]htmlstatus:the content of the posting, formatted in HTML.
 [/ul]
 
+To post to a specific channel, replace the email address with the channel nickname. If you supply the channel parameter, it has to match the "email", but is superfluous anyway.
 
 Instead of calling [observer=1][observer.baseurl][/observer][observer=0]example.com[/observer]/api/statuses/update which returns a json (you could also add .json on the end to clarify) output, you can use [observer.baseurl]/api/statuses/update.xml to get an xml formatted return.