Re: [syndication] Re: Being kind to clients

[Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>]

Hi

On Fri 15-Mar-2002 at 02:16:25 -0000, wkearney99 wrote:
> 
> what would it take for feed sources to provide a 'lightweight'
> indicator of feed status?  What could be done to allow a client
> program to make a very small inquiry instead of a full poll?  

Clients and servers supporting HTTP head requests as per the HTTP 1.1
rfc?

Chris

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