+1 on using any opportunity to recommend using guids. I'd also add a comment that whatever "link" points to, it SHOULD be "renderable" in a web browser...
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Simone Carletti
wepposcarletti
Sep 4, 2006 7:55 pm
A few months ago I found this interesting suggestion http://radio.userland.com/stories/storyReader$19964 . I tested it on a few aggregators but no one...
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Klaus Johannes Rusch
KlausRusch@...
Sep 4, 2006 8:19 pm
... This duplicates already existing and well-established mechanisms for indicating redirection (including which one, 301 permanent or 302 temporary), removal...
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Mark Woodman
mark.woodman
Sep 4, 2006 8:20 pm
... Dave's article was 4 years ago, and he didn't put it in the RSS specification. It seems to have lived very quietly (read: not widely adopted) since then. ...
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Jake Savin
jsavin
Sep 4, 2006 8:40 pm
Both Radio UserLand and Manila should support this feature, though they would need to be tested to know for sure. My guess would be that the aggregator in the...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Sep 4, 2006 9:36 pm
Not everybody can HTTP 301 their feed. Many hosting providers don't provide such a facility and many bloggers wouldn't know how to HTTP 301 their feed anyway....
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Klaus Johannes Rusch
KlausRusch@...
Sep 4, 2006 10:01 pm
... The chances of getting hosting providers and blog software authors to support 301s are much higher in the absence of kludgy workarounds. ... Not all blog...
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Simone Carletti
wepposcarletti
Sep 5, 2006 7:12 am
... support 301s are much higher in the absence of kludgy workarounds. In a perfect world I agree with you, but since I started years ago programming on...
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Simone Carletti
wepposcarletti
Sep 5, 2006 7:17 am
... I think it would be a good idea. :) Simone Carletti http://www.simonecarletti.com/...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Sep 5, 2006 11:05 am
... Both HTTP level redirects and XML file redirection are independent of the intended content type, so a reasonable case could be made that neither belong in...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Sep 5, 2006 1:35 pm
I would include this text, or similar, directly in the profile. Randy Charles Morin http://www.kbcafe.com/rss ... a ... or ... redirects...
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Charles Iliya Krempeaux
supercanadian@...
Sep 5, 2006 3:32 pm
Hello Klaus, ... Something that people here might want to note (if they haven't done so already). HTML already has a similar mechanism. One can use the <meta>...
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Eric Lunt
elunt
Sep 5, 2006 4:50 pm
If you want to leave FeedBurner, we go through a number of steps to redirect readers back to the source feed. Issuing this document is one of the "stages of...
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Clinton Gallagher
pocketchange...
Sep 5, 2006 9:39 pm
I have yet to delve into the nitty gritty but it seems IIS7 has already been extensively modified. Apparently IIS7 pushes manageability down the stack making...
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Sean Lyndersay
seanlyndersay
Sep 6, 2006 12:02 am
I think it's a mistake for consumers to update feed URLs on 301 (permanent) redirects silently. Unless the consumer has an "restore-last-feedURL" feature, the...
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A. Pagaltzis
a22pag
Sep 6, 2006 12:27 am
... You speak as someone who writes software for users. As someone who publishes feeds, I am not particularly fond of those suggestions. I would rather...
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Sean Lyndersay
seanlyndersay
Sep 6, 2006 7:20 pm
Your solution is reasonable - if slightly complex (like many aggregators, we rely on a layer below us to handle HTTP redirects automatically. It's trickier,...
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rcade
Sep 7, 2006 5:52 pm
... That's my hope. What's good advice today may not be good advice in 2008. Two years ago I never would've thought using content:encoded for full text and...
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rcade
Sep 7, 2006 8:09 pm
Dave Winer introduced TTL to the RSS specification, and he describes the intent of the element on his blog: http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q1B9228BD I took a...
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rcade
Sep 7, 2006 8:18 pm
... Oops. This is the correct link to the current draft: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile-1-12#element-channel-ttl...
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Mark Woodman
mark.woodman
Sep 7, 2006 8:35 pm
Considering Dave's post <http://www.scripting.com/2006/09/07.html#theRssTtlElementAndP2pNetworks\ ... conjunction with lastBuildDate. (As opposed to pubDate,...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Sep 7, 2006 8:40 pm
... At the moment, the validator checks to see if this value is a positive integer. Based on this definition, a zero value would presumably mean "do not...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Sep 7, 2006 8:52 pm
Adam Curry, while on the board, suggested that a value of -1 or very large would indicate an unsubscribe, similar to a 410. Sorry, I can't find the link. Doubt...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Sep 7, 2006 9:20 pm
... You're confusing a client side cache (the aggregator) with an intermediate cache (which is essentially what Dave's P2P nodes are). The ttl doesn't force a...
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rcade
Sep 7, 2006 9:58 pm
... In my opinion, trying to follow a spec author's intent is too nebulous to be useful, especially in this case. Dave Winer has said on this list and...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Sep 7, 2006 10:51 pm
... I agree completely. I just didn't understand why you were bringing up Dave's blog post then. What you currently have in the profile seems perfect to me ...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
Sep 9, 2006 2:12 am
... Ok, now I see why you brought up Dave's blog post. I definitely disagree with the new text. But that's just IMHO. Regards James...
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rcade
Sep 9, 2006 3:18 am
... disagree ... I only linked to Winer's post as an FYI. It isn't in any way intended to justify that draft of the ttl recommendation....
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Sep 9, 2006 10:26 am
... To me, disagreement implies dialog. Confusion would seem to me to be a more accurate term. - Sam Ruby...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Sep 14, 2006 4:10 pm
Dave has some interesting questions related to mobile use of RSS. http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/09/14/scripting-news-for- 9142006/#comments My thoughts ...
