RE: [syndication] What to call the RSS file

[Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com>]

>For some reason, I can't seem to get ".rss" files to display in IE 5.5 at
>all -- if I try, the browser loads the resource but never actually changes
>the display, so you just wind up staring at whatever page you were
>originally at.

I've had similar problems, actually. IE seems to have a lot of fun 
confusion with filenames, and so forth. For instance, I had to work around 
one AmphetaDesk issue:

 to delete a channel from amphetadesk, a url is constructed like so:
 http://127.0.0.1:8888/my_channels.html?delete=filename.xml

This is all fine and dandy and looks great and normal. However, once the 
page *returns* from accessing that URL, IE 5.5 thinks that the flipping 
thing is an XML file (due to the final three digits), and displays 
everything as code. I've yet to see if this works in an HTML doctype, but 
with my XHTML doctype for webpages, it got confused.

The simple solution was:

 http://127.0.0.1:8888/my_channels.html?delete=filename.xml&go=1

"go=1" is ignored by AmphetaDesk and everything works wonderfully. You may, 
for experiments sake, try something like "file.rss?file.xml" just to see if 
that would work. That may cause errors from the webservers point of view 
though...

Its even worse when people have evolved an old .cdf file to an RSS file 
(which happens, albeit rarely). On IE for Macs, it tries to do something 
special with the CDF file, and then just sits there. Probably a throwback 
to when IE started the whole CDF thing in IE 4.


Morbus Iff
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