RE: [syndication] Re: What to call the RSS file

["Rael Dornfest" <rael@oreilly.com>]

Howdy,

A nice collection of file suffixes I've found is Apache's mime.types file.

Rael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Kearney [mailto:wkearney99@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 7:39 AM
> To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [syndication] Re: What to call the RSS file
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> --- In syndication@y..., Aaron Swartz <aswartz@s...> wrote:
> > Ben Parker <ben@a...> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a convention or a Good Way to name the RRS file? It
> seems there are
> > > every kind out there, including backend.php, rss.xml, xml.rss
> foo.txt etc
> > > etc. I suppose it doesn't matter, but just in case it does...
> >
> > It doesn't really matter, although I tend to prefer rss.xml for
> 0.91 and
> > rss.rdf for 1.0.
>
> Technically, it does matter.  Some systems might expect to use that
> file extension as a means to determine how to deal with the file.
> Yes, in an ideal world an .XML suffixed file should be understood by
> the UI as something to be 'parsed' in order to determine the correct
> way to handle it.  Unfortunately we don't yet have that situation.
> While it's true that most feeds aren't going to be handled by the
> filesystem UI, that's no reason not to make them capable of it.
>
> Is there a web accessible database of 'well known' file extensions?
> Let's not pick something already taken by someone with an axe to
> grind...
>
> -Bill Kearney
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