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...
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krokodil@...
vadim_zaliva
Dec 27, 2004 11:28 pm
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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Klaus Johannes Rusch
krusch
Dec 27, 2004 11:34 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...
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krokodil@...
vadim_zaliva
Dec 28, 2004 12:36 am
... <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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Randy Morin
randymorin
Dec 28, 2004 5:43 am
... 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...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Dec 28, 2004 5:50 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...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Dec 28, 2004 2:11 pm
... 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 ...
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krokodil@...
vadim_zaliva
Dec 28, 2004 5:41 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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Randy Morin
randymorin
Dec 29, 2004 3:18 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...
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shporer
Dec 30, 2004 8:04 am
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...
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Graeme Wallace
gwwallace2001
Jan 7, 2005 5:48 am
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...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Jan 10, 2005 4:30 pm
FAQ - http://my.yahoo.com/s/rss-faq.html#sharefdbk Hope this helps, Randy http://www.kbcafe.com ... the...
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Alexei Shilin
a_shilin
Jan 20, 2005 8:27 am
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...
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ecomputerd
Jan 27, 2005 8:35 pm
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...
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Alexei Shilin
a_shilin
Jan 28, 2005 6:05 am
... 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...
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yakovs
Jan 31, 2005 6:13 pm
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...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Feb 1, 2005 9:01 pm
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...
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ecomputerd
Feb 1, 2005 9:44 pm
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...
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scorpiusb2000
Feb 1, 2005 9:57 pm
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...
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yakovs
Feb 1, 2005 10:05 pm
Thank you. In my case it seems to be a BlogLines-specific problems since the other aggregators I tried out are working fine. ... assume...
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yakovs
Feb 1, 2005 10:09 pm
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,...
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ecomputerd
Feb 1, 2005 10:32 pm
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...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Feb 1, 2005 11:21 pm
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...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Feb 2, 2005 12:17 am
... 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...
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scorpiusb2000
Feb 7, 2005 9:50 am
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...
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lxa1801
Feb 11, 2005 1:13 am
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...
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yakovs
Feb 11, 2005 1:57 am
That's a PHP problem with your program, not with the RSS feed it generates....
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AerosSaga
aeros_saga
Feb 25, 2005 1:41 pm
<enclosure url="http://beta.schecter.biz/DesktopModules/NukeSyndicate/download.aspx?mid=368&id=8" length="3331055" type="audio/mpeg"></Enclosure> Now my...
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Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Feb 25, 2005 2:05 pm
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...
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akjohnston
Feb 26, 2005 8:40 am
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...
