Re: MIME Type for RSS Documents

Jon Hanna <jon-YK+g4hZFQDMeIZ0/[email protected]> Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:34:26 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.syndication.rss.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
rcade wrote:
> Sean Lyndersay of Microsoft has asked a question on the RSS 2.0
> mailing list RSS-Public -- what's the preferred MIME type for RSS:
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-public/message/566
> 
> I was looking at this as an RSS 2.0 issue, but Sam Ruby called to my
> attention an effort several years ago to use "application/rss+xml" for
> all RSS feeds, whether they use RDF Site Summary or Really Simple
> Syndication.
> 
> This sounds like a great idea to me. I'm eager to see us work together
> as much as possible on areas of mutual benefit.
> 
> If anyone on the RSS-DEV Working Group would like to work on a joint
> proposal to support this MIME type (or some other) for all RSS feeds,
> let me know.

I'd certainly like to see this done. Contact me off-list if you want.


 
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