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December 11, 2004
It's the Server, Stupid!
Chris DeSalvo makes the point about two weeks ago--but still timely--that servers are really the problem, not clients in the RSS world. Well-defined servers should be sending appropriate responses for If-Modified-Since and Etags.
Posted by Glennf at December 11, 2004 08:30 PM
Comments
A lot of sites still don’t get this right, normally because the request goes through a script rather than the filing system. I wrote some simple tests to check - details and examples at
http://www.kafsemo.org/2004/09/12.html .
Posted by: Joe at December 15, 2004 04:23 PM