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Re: [syndication] Amphetadesk Referrer



> >Can someone tell me what Amphetadesk puts in the referer field when
> >collecting RSS? How about when someone clicks on a link to go to the
> >original article.
>
> http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/ for the Referer, but that can be
> changed to whatever the user wants (it's not a GUI frontend change, because
> I ultimately felt that I couldn't explain it easily enough).

Are you allowing the users to enter a username anywhere?  If so, then how about
a checkbox somewhere that allowed them to indicate the use of it tacked onto the
regular referring user agent string?  If not the username then how about a web
site URL?(encoded of course)

That's what's being done in some other reader products.

-Bill Kearney