Jim Winstead wrote:
yes!! Recent Radio does this (stops getting a feed if it failed forWhat's wrong with HTTP 404?Nothing, if the feed reader application notifies the person using it. But most readers don't ever tell the user about the error.amen to this. i've been returning a 404 on a couple of feeds for months, and those feeds are still getting more than 600 requests a day. (mostly from radio userland clients.) one of them occassionally pops up as one of the top 100 subscribed feeds at http://radio.weblogs.com/.
48 hours). The most popular user agent on NewsIsFree is gnome-vfs. Part of gnome obviously, not sure what it's used for. It does not report errors to the user and just gets the feeds over and over again. I blocked that user agent altogether. Have done so for several months. In december, I got 1.5 million hits from software with that agent alone. All for nothing. Crazy. Mike -- Mike Krus mkrus@newsisfree.com http://www.newsisfree.com/blog/ ICQ: 30900412