Re: [syndication] friendlier feeds

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

Hmm, don't really even need to do that; using MultiViews, there are
(at least) three resources available;

http://www.example.com/feed <-- negotiated
http://www.example.com/feed.rss <-- always the RSS
http://www.example.com/feed.html <-- always the HTML

Cheers,


On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 01:49:00PM -0800, S. Mike Dierken wrote:
> Accept is a great way to go.
> When I wanted a non-html rendition to be used by a web browser, and since it
> is hard to control the Accept header from a web browser, I 'tunneled' the
> header in to a URL query term something like accept=text/xml (the 'do:'
> means it is an emulation of HTTP concepts of the same name).
> 
> There is some discussion here about this also:
>  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndication/message/2633
> 
> mike
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>
> To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 12:25 PM
> Subject: [syndication] friendlier feeds
> 
> 
> >
> > I've been playing with making feeds friendlier, using content
> > negotiation.
> >
> > For example:
> >   http://www.mnot.net/bookmarks/feed
> >
> > If you request it with a browser, you'll get an HTML page, telling
> > you how to use RSS; if you request it with an aggregator, you'll get
> > the RSS. This is because your browser sends an Accept: header
> > containing 'text/html'.
> >
> > In Apache, I do this with this directive in access.conf:
> >
> >   <LocationMatch "/feed$">
> >   Options +MultiViews
> >   </LocationMatch>
> >
> > Then, whenever I publish a feed, I put in two files; feed.rss and
> > feed.html.
> >
> > I haven't tested this with any aggregator except my own; if anyone
> > has a problem, please tell me.
> >
> > The (slight) downside of this is that if your browser knows how to
> > read RSS (or dispatch it to another program that does), it has to do
> > one of two things;
> >   a) know to put 'application/rss+xml' in the Accept header, with a
> >      higher q value than 'text/html' (or just omit the Accept header)
> >   b) pass the URI to the helper app, which makes the request
> >      itself
> >
> > I think this is manageable.
> >
> > --
> > Mark Nottingham
> > http://www.mnot.net/
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> 
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Mark Nottingham
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