Re: RSS as a pseudo Web Service

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:47:12 -0700, James Holderness  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd recommend against it. You're assumedly going to have a server at one  
> end that's not going to be an RSS server, a client at the other end  
> that's not going to be an RSS client, so why use RSS for the protocol  
> between the two?

It would be more of a peer-to-peer situation, where each machine would be
both an RSS server and an RSS client, if indeed RSS were to be suitable as
the data transport mechanism.

> If you really think the RSS protocol fits your needs perfectly and you're

That would be a point on which I would need some guidance. I need a  
transport
protocol, and RSS is that, but it certainly isn't the only one. It just  
seemed
more of a match to the content, which would be RDF, but whether or not  
that's
important I would leave to the advice of others.

> not just stuffing your data into RSS because you don't want to come up  
> with a format of your own,

I don't want to reinvent anything if I don't have to.

> at least give it a different top level element so you don't run the risk 
> of someone coming across your feed and trying to subscribe to it.

Good point.

Regards,
Brian
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