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I am reading this group using RSS and just noticed that Yahoo
never returns 304 (unmodified), returning full feed content each
time. Here is sample TCP dump:

172.030.005.043.62742-066.218.067.020.00080: GET
/group/RSS2-Support/rss HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Java/1.4.2_05
Host: rss.groups.yahoo.com
Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
Connection: keep-alive
If-Modified-Since: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:22:44 GMT


066.218.067.020.00080-172.030.005.043.62742: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:23:37 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=600
Expires: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:33:37 GMT
P3P: policyref="http://p3p.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR
ADM DEV TAI PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi TELo OTPi OUR DELi SAMi OTRi UNRi
PUBi IND PHY ONL UNI PUR FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL HEA PRE GOV"
Last-Modified: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:23:37 GMT
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/xml

Am I missnig something, or it is broken?

Vadim






Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:28 pm

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I am reading this group using RSS and just noticed that Yahoo never returns 304 (unmodified), returning full feed content each time. Here is sample TCP dump: ...
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vadim_zaliva
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Dec 27, 2004
11:28 pm

... Yahoo! seems to intentionally generate the feed every time it is requested according to the timestamp, notice that the server time (Date: header) and the...
Klaus Johannes Rusch
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Dec 27, 2004
11:34 pm

... <KlausRusch@a...> wrote: Yes, I know it is valid, but it is long considered to be a good practice to implement this to decrease bandwidth used by a feed....
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vadim_zaliva
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Dec 28, 2004
12:36 am

The bandwidth concern and 304 processing is to protect the RSS publisher against incurring large undesirable bandwidth costs. If the RSS publisher, in this...
Randy Morin
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Dec 28, 2004
5:50 am

... It's also important to consider the "don't set a bad example" angle. It sets the development of tools back to have a major provider of data ignore ...
Bill Kearney
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Dec 28, 2004
2:11 pm

... wrote: Well said! As somebody who was involved with wireless software, I can confirm that downloading hundreds kilobytes of data over slow CSD or GPRS...
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vadim_zaliva
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Dec 28, 2004
5:41 pm

In other words, you agree they are not doing anything wrong, but you are exercising your right to complain anyway ;) Randy http://www.kbcafe.com ... angle. It...
Randy Morin
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