Re: [syndication] Scraper code?

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> > I'm left wondering when reinventing Passport/.Net will start here....
> Have had the same thoughts myself... :)

Hee hee, good to see you got the point of my joke.

> > As opposed to what?  Doing the nothing that exists now?
> What I proposed earlier, for a start...

> > 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.

The client can only react to what it's being told be the server.  If the
filename extension isn't consistent (and many are NOT) then how is your client
going to 'detect' what to do with the URL?  It'd have to use content type info
or even content negotiation.   This DOES work but as I've posited, many servers
are NOT currently doing this correctly AND won't be able to do so.  Not from a
technical standpoint as much as from a procedure/policy issue.  Folks are often
faced with serving up RSS from servers that won't let them change the content
type.

Yes, content type would help a lot and everything out there should be making
steps to be sure their RSS output is being sent as 'application/rss+xml'.  Now
bear in mind that the RDF WG would prefer using 'application/rdf+xml'.  That's
fine but for documents clearly intended to be RSS I'd suggest using the former.
Small steps here folks.

-Bill Kearney