Re: Redirecting RSS

["Ben Hammersley <ben@benhammersley.com>" <ben@benhammersley.com>]

I wouldn't disagree with Bill or Dave on this. Do both an in-line and
an HTTP level redirect and you've got belt and braces.

For a complete stapling your trousers to your hips solution, do what I
did: fake the old path and make a symlink to the new file. Then you
don't need to change URLs at all. Crude, but effective.

--- In syndication@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Winer <dave@u...>"
<dave@u...> wrote:
> Here's what I would recommend right now, as of January 2003.
> 
> Since you have access to the server and can do an HTTP-level 
> permanent redirect, do it that way. At least some of the aggregators 
> will observe it and adjust their databases to store the new location 
> and will stop accessing the old one. Some of them will traverse the 
> redirect as long as it's in place and will break when and if you 
> remove it. Others will not be able to deal with the redirect and will 
> break right now.
> 
> If you did not have access to the server at this level I would 
> encourage you to use the method I outlined a couple of months ago. At 
> least Radio UserLand and NetNewsWire will make the adjustment (I 
> think both will respect the method outlined above as well). Others 
> will disagree, but we've had this debate several times, consider it 
> included in this thread.