Re: [syndication] Digest Number 340

[David Carter-Tod <wccartd@wc.cc.va.us>]

At 08:09 AM 8/4/01 +0000, you wrote:
> 3) Sidebar systems. The sort of javascript thing that displays a feeds
> headlines in another site's side column. If this does no local cacheing,
> which it probably doesn't, then every hit on the display site will be a
> hit on the feed

Well, in my case, I absolutely do cache.  In fact, I'll only update once a 
day.  That update is triggered by a request to the service for that 
feed.  There are two  exceptions to that rule:

1. If a feed is indicated as having been updated by Userland's 
currentstories.xml file.  In other words, I let Userland do the crawling 
and work out the feeds that need updating from their "meta" file.

2. An explicit request to renew a feed to my rewew page.

I would think that desktop clients should do something similar.  There 
should be a single crawler, which generates a canonical changedSites.xml 
file on a server somewhere.  Clients only update if a change is indicated 
there.  If a mirror-ing arrangement could be worked out for that file, all 
the better.

David
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