Re: Re: Feed, know thyself?

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:34:18 -0000, Phil Shaw <phil-BtY/pAun/[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 17 Jan 2005, at 21:39, Danny Ayers wrote:
> 
> > > I don't quite see Danny's use case where you have a feed and cannot
> > > deduce its network origin?
> >
> > When you click on a link in your browser...mime-type handlers in
> > Internet Explorer (and probably other browsers) only pass on the data
> > stream, not its source URI. (As yet I've not found a definitive doc
> > for this, but this is as I understand it from skimming around MSDN,
> > e.g.
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/pluggable/overview/overv
> > iew.asp )
> 
> Okay, thanks, I see the issue now. I would say it's a browser
> implementation problem, not an RSS specification issue, the URI is
> clearly present at origin.

Yep, that's perfectly true. The argument as far as single-click
subscription goes is purely pragmatic, assuming that MS & co. won't
get around to doing anything for a few years. But I also suspect it
may more generally be useful to differentiate between the homepage
(HTML) URI and the RSS feed URI.

> I use Opera 7.5, which has built-in RSS support, so its own client
> kicks in. There are preferences by MIME type but for RSS it seems
> impossible to override its default association. We may have to wait
> until Microsoft have an RSS client before they make this easy, but
> they too may want to lock-in users -- pure speculation, of course ;-)

Yep, quite. Someone mentioned Safari's ahead of the game on this too.

Cheers,
Danny.

-- 

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