Re: Re: Saving Bandwidth on RSS Feed Details

In theory this info is already coming with the feed as part of the HTTP 
headers.

Use the data that's already present.

But since that data is often ignored (and sometimes wrong because of poor 
scripting) what's to justify making the effort to introduce yet another way 
to get it?  What evidence exists to prove there would be any uptake of it?

Don't get me wrong, I pitched for much the same notions ages ago.  The 
market apparently doesn't care enough to manage their consumption of 
bandwidth.  Adding the code to be more effective is apparently not worth it, 
sad to say.

-Bill Kearney

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> I posted this idea on my blog [1], and Antone Roundy had a better idea 
> than ttl -- putting the date and time the feed details were last updated 
> in the element, like this:
>
> <rssboard:feedDetails lastUpdated="Tue, 13 Oct 2009 
> 09:01:25 -0400">http://ekzemplo.com/feedDetails.rss</rssboard:feedDetails>
>
> That way, the client knows when the detail feed needs to be checked for an 
> update, and never checks it otherwise.
>
> 1: http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3562
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