Re: site-wide metadata [was: RFC: myPublicFeeds.opml]
Jeremy Zawodny <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.syndication.discuss |
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| Message-ID | <20031015201131.GB8043@thermal> |
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:43:33AM -0700, Mark Nottingham wrote: > > Put another way, the problem is with standards (whether a de facto > standard by a single vendor, or a Recommendation from the W3C, or an > IETF standard, etc.) specifying URIs for other people. Amusingly, it's okay with e-mail addresses. [email protected]? > It's true that they can choose to follow that standard or not, but > software will be written assuming that that URI means something > whether or not they do. Well, there's software out that that thinks "default.asp" and "index.html" means something. > This has consequences for both the Web sites that don't support it, > and the software that's expecting a specific behaviour without any > agreement that it'll happen. How many HTTP requests do you think we're talking about here? The way I hear some people arguing, you'd think we were going to DoS half the web with this... Do I have a way defalated sense of how popular this is going to be, or what? Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <Jeremy-LaWf/[email protected]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/