Re: Dealing with duplicate feeds. Is link unique?

--- In [email protected], Manuel González Noriega
<manuel.gonzalez.noriega@g...> wrote:

Also do not forget about HTTP authentication. Same feed fetched
with different credentials could have different content. So unique id
of the feed must at least contain feed XML URL and authentication
credentials (login/password for HTTP Basic auth).

Sincerely,
Vadim

> Hi,
> 
> I'm experimenting with the joys of mass subscription to feeds and
having 
> some issues with duplicate feeds. For example, discovering 
> the rss 1.0 feed for a blog from one source and the rss 2.0 feed for
the 
> same blog from another source and ending up with two 'twin'
subscriptions 
> and two identical set of items.
> 
> What's the better way to handle this? Can I trust the uniqueness of the 
> <link> element enough to declare it UNIQUE in the database? Or may I
find a 
> singificant number of feeds that share the same <link> for the
<channel> but 
> are in fact different? I'm worried specifically about group blogs
that may 
> be incorrectly declaring a shared <link> 
> 
> Is this seen often in the wild or am I overdesiging?
> 
> Thanks in advance 
> 
> -- 
> Manuel 
> a veces :) a veces :( 
> pero siempre trabajando duro para Simplelógica: apariencia,
experiencia y 
> comunicación en la web.
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> 
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> 
> 
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