Re: [syndication] Scraper code?

["Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>]

> I'm left wondering when reinventing Passport/.Net will start here....

Have had the same thoughts myself... :)


> > Of course, you could have a register-your-aggregator service as well,
so
> > that B becomes a sort of marketplace of feeds and aggregators,
matching
> > them up as appropriate. However, as a user, I still have to go to B,
> > register myself as a user there, add my aggregator if they don't have
it,
> > and hope that they have all of my feeds; otherwise, I have to manually
> > enter them. Nightmare.
>
> As opposed to what?  Doing the nothing that exists now?

What I proposed earlier, for a start...


> > Using the Content-Type to dispatch a particular format (RSS in this
case)
> > is so much simpler, robust, and - more to the point - it's how the Web
is
> > designed to work.
>
> That's indeed one step in the right direction.  Apache's had the ability
to do
> this via .htaccess for quite a while.  Unfortunately many users don't
know how
> to manage these or their server doesn't support them using it.

Er, we're talking about the client side here, not the server.