Not a new idea - I remembered reading about it on "Dive Into Mark" -
see here:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/05/30/rss_autodiscovery. Lots
of tools have already incorporated auto-discovery (like Firefox, for
example...)

see also: http://rssexplorer.planet-hood.com/ - an oldie that I
used for quite a long time.

regards, M.


--- In aggregators@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Dynice" <nickd@...> wrote:
>
> I am wondering if anyone has made an app in PHP that can look at a
web
> page and find a feed address on the page. This way, you could
give the
> aggregagor a generic root web address, and then have it detect and
use
> the feed address.
>
> I see it could be done any number of ways. It could end
> in .rdf, .xml, .php. I know that Firefox has a way to detect a
feed on
> a page, and it puts the orange feed icon in the bottom right
corner of
> the window.
>
> Thanks.
>