... That is a good solution actually.. I didn't know how I was going to deal with this in NewsMonster. There is the arguement that you should allow the user...
... but if you want to actually ... dialog would be needed. As RSS gets more popular, I think the percentage of people who want to actually view source will...
PS. I put the list on my blog [1], and seconds later James Robertson let me know that BottomFeeder [2] supports both https and http authorization (thanks...
... If anyone wants to combine this list with my list of readers that support conditional GETs [1] then we could be on the way to building a list of reader...
... Sounds like the basis of a new wiki - "What is the expected behavior of an aggregator?" As a publisher I'm all for it, but I wouldn't want it turn into an...
... Be glad to. This is information that I personally find useful, so it's the least I could do. I'll put it onto one of my own domains for now. If there's ...
Hello, We are proud to announce the launch of Bloglines, at http://www.bloglines.com. Bloglines is a server-based aggregator. Features include: * Two-pane...
One request - stop sending bloglines.com as the referrer every time you request a RSS feed. There was a lot of discussion about this a while back, and the...
... Yeah... generally a bad idea.. -- Help Support NewsMonster Development! Purchase NewsMonster PRO! http://www.newsmonster.org/download-pro.html Kevin A....
... Here's one http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndication/message/3364 Off the top of my head and a brief reading of the threads around there. - When collecting...
... Interesting. The reason we did it that way was just because we saw Technorati doing it that way. Do all other aggregators not use the referer? Thanks, Mark...
NetNewsWire doesn't. (Some earlier version do, but the last few releases don't.) I think some other aggregators also don't, though I'm not sure which. A couple...
Are there any objections to including a url in the user-agent? This is a valid way of giving sites more information on the software accessing their content....
Yes, include a URL in the user-agent. It's nice because it gives people a chance to find out more about your user-agent. -Brent PS NetNewsWire's user-agent...
... Ok, we've just changed Bloglines so that the referer is not set and the User-Agent is: Bloglines/1.0 (http://www.bloglines.com) Thanks, Mark -- Mark...
A quick question to the group... how often do your aggregators poll sites for changes? Currently Bloglines polls once an hour on the hour, but we're thinking...
BottomFeeder has a default poll time of 30 minutes, but it's user configurable. I do have 30 minutes as the shortest interval that a user can set it to ... ...
... This would be a very bad idea. The absolute minimum is 1 hour. -- Morbus Iff ( i put the demon back in codemonkey ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and...
In the past using times any faster than once an hour caused tremendous problems with exhausting available bandwidth and running up a site's monthly bill ...
... Or, based on BottomFeed's comments, SHOULD be 1 hour. People and User-Agents have been banned (most notably, by Slashdot) for even offering a minimum of an...
... I believe Slashdot supports queries every half hour, plus a little fudge factor. Only if you go over that will they do the 72 hour ban. This is a good...
... I don't think there have been any "conclusive" reports on it, no - most of the discussions in the past have boiled down into "best practices" scenarios....
... if you subscribe to a lot of feeds, a fair proportion are updated on each check. Think of it like email - how much do we worry about the load on email...
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