Re: Re: how to download entire feed with wget

James Holderness wrote:
>  
> Randy Morin wrote:
>  > I don't really like the outcome of this thread. Basically, we have
>  > proprietary APIs and an Atom solution that isn't adopted or
>  > scalable (it requires dynamic responses). I'll add this to our
>  > TODO list.
> 
> FWIW the "Atom" solution (assuming you're referring to RFC5005) can just as
> easily be used in an RSS feed (see appendix B). As for the issue of
> scalability, I don't believe dynamic responses are necessarily a
> requirement.

In addition to appendix B, see reference 9, which gives attribution to 
both D. Winer and a work product of this group.

Here is a feed that is served statically that contains RFC 5005 defined 
elements:

   http://intertwingly.net/blog/archives/2009/03/index.atom

It's not perfect (the "current" feed duplicates entries that may be 
found in "previous" ones), but mostly workable.

> The real problem though is adoption. Inventing yet another solution to this
> problem, no matter how well designed, seems pointless to me if nobody is
> interested in implementing it.

s/nobody is/only a few are/

> Regards
> James

- Sam Ruby



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