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December 17, 2004

Specific Advice and Configuration Tips for RSS Goodness

Randy Charles Morin sends in a link to his very detailed advice on how to configure Web servers, modify RSS feeds, and marching orders for aggregator developers to reform the wasted bandwidth used in RSS today.

A main point here is that aggregators need to be well behaved. Publishers can tweak all we want, but lightly implemented or buggy aggregators that don't observe Web server and feed directives and responses are (in my opinion) most of the problem. That's not to say that those of us running servers can't tweak our settings to improve matters, too!

Posted by Glennf at December 17, 2004 10:43 AM

Comments

Thanks Glenn. I hope to improve on the document and I also want to run tests w/ all the aggregation clients to see who supports what.

Posted by: Randy Charles Morin at December 17, 2004 02:08 PM

I updated my little RSS feed state article to include a section on Last-Modified, RFC 3229 and to fix a couple typos. I also added a table of contents and anchors so that people can refer to particular sections of the article. Feedback please.

Posted by: Randy Charles Morin at December 22, 2004 01:56 PM