Re: [syndication] friendlier feeds

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

  Accept: application/rss+xml;revision=0.91, application/rss+xml;q=0.5

This says that you'd prefer 0.91, but if push comes to shove, any old
RSS will do.

Cheers,


On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 01:12:17AM -0800, burton@openprivacy.org wrote:
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> Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> writes:
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> > I've been playing with making feeds friendlier, using content
> > negotiation.
> > 
> > For example:
> >   http://www.mnot.net/bookmarks/feed
> > 
> > If you request it with a browser, you'll get an HTML page, telling
> > you how to use RSS; if you request it with an aggregator, you'll get
> > the RSS. This is because your browser sends an Accept: header
> > containing 'text/html'. 
> <snip/>
> 
> Ah.  Good idea.  The Accept header is a good thing.
> 
> The only problem that I can see is that no one has done a decent proposal for
> mapping mime types to XML namespaces.
> 
> IE. I might want to get RSS 1.0 from you instead of RSS 0.91
> 
> Anyway.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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