Re: [syndication] Re: [RSS-DEV] How should a feed tell people it's gone?

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

I think this is Nautilus...


On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:13:21PM +0100, Mike Krus wrote:
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> Jim Winstead wrote:
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> >>>What's wrong with HTTP 404?
> >>>
> >>Nothing, if the feed reader application notifies the person using it.
> >>But most readers don't ever tell the user about the error.
> > amen to this. i've been returning a 404 on a couple of feeds for months,
> > and those feeds are still getting more than 600 requests a day. (mostly
> > from radio userland clients.) one of them occassionally pops up as one
> > of the top 100 subscribed feeds at http://radio.weblogs.com/.
> yes!! Recent Radio does this (stops getting a feed if it failed for 
> 
> 48 hours).
> 
> The most popular user agent on NewsIsFree is gnome-vfs. Part of
> gnome obviously, not sure what it's used for. It does not report
> errors to the user and just gets the feeds over and over again.
> I blocked that user agent altogether. Have done so for several
> months. In december, I got 1.5 million hits from software with
> that agent alone. All for nothing. Crazy.
> 
> 
> Mike
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