How are RSS feeds typically updated?, i.e.: - are old elements removed? (if so, what is the ageing process?) - how do you deal with publishing multiple times...
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: ...
... 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...
... <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....
... Yes, generally RSS feeds remain a fixed length of <item>s and as new <item>s are added to the front, old <item>s drop off the back. I maintain exactly 24...
The bandwidth concern and 304 processing is to protect the RSS publisher against incurring large undesirable bandwidth costs. If the RSS publisher, in this...
... 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 ...
... 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...
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...
I've just finished writing a aggregator that delivers RSS to Outlook: http://rsspopper.blogspot.com/ More information can be found there (less than I want, it...
Anyone know where to post problems with My Yahoo RSS ? I've got feeds that sporadically show up and disappear even though the content is fine on the RSS server...
Hi, if I publish newsfeeds the first time everything goes alright and aggregators retrieve them. But what do I do next? How do I add a fresh news? I tried to...
What exactly "did not work" about it? What aggregator are you using? Have you tried downloading the file with a browser? Have you tried submitting the feed to...
... Thanks, I took a different template this time and used rss 2.0 and it works fine at the moment. Thank you for response. -- Alexei Shilin Gentoo Opera 7.54...
Hi, I am the author of the track2rss project (http://track2rss.sf.net) which lets you track packages via RSS 2.0 feeds (Fedex, USPS and UPS). I have been...
Although the pubDate and lastBuildDate are not required, often RSS readers/aggregators will use these as hints to determine if the feed or items within the...
I can't vouch for other aggregators, but FeederReader parses all feeds that are downloaded. It does not look at lastBuildDate at all. It uses pubDate of...
Hi: I'm new and would like to know if anyone can help me out with a RSS problem. I'm trying to embed the following HTML code into my RSS feed. I can do this...
A question: what happens if there is not pubData OR lastBuiltDate? According to the RSS 2.0 spec it seems that they are not required elements. In my case,...
I think the lastBuildDate is very appropriate for the current time when the RSS file is created. I would hope that any aggregator developer would design their...
From: "yakovs" <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> ... The spec is widely considered "less than ideal". If you need to use a more refined spec you'd do well to look at...
... You can't embed scripts into RSS feeds. Most, if not all, readers won't use it. For many reasons the most important being security. The main reason...
I need a bit of info here. I have currently gotten 14562 hits from a number of RSS news aggregators. Can any one here give me a general idea as to how many...
Maybe I'm just crazy. But I can't seem to get my rss file to open. www.lcr-mi.org/rss.php I keep getting: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in...
Anytime you use an atttribute or element value you need to follow XML's rules. For URLs you should HTML encode them. This is true for any URL not just for...
I'm about to start a new Blog with an RSS feed, and I'd appreciate some guidance. If I update an article, should I update the original <item> with a new...
