Re: [syndication] locating syndication feeds

[Gary Teter <bigdog@bulldogbeach.com>]

on 7/10/01 10:11 PM, Mark Nottingham at mnot@mnot.net wrote:

> Please find attached a draft of a proposal. Thoughts?

Cool.... Glad to see someone's working on this!

A thought, inspired by IE. Recently I decided to get off my duff and do
something about those "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 errors in our server
logs. In case you're not familiar with those, IE on Windows attempts to
fetch a file named "favicon.ico" whenever a visitor bookmarks your site. You
can point the browser to a different file by putting a <LINK REL="SHORTCUT
ICON" href="http://www.wirehose.com/images/favicon.ico";> in the head of your
HTML.

It might be nice to do something similar with the channel list: have it at a
predictable place relative to the current base href ("channellist.xml" in
the current directory), or if not found there, then at "/channellist.xml",
but also allow a link rel meta tag to override and point the user-agent
elsewhere.

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Gary Teter, Big Dog
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