Re: [syndication] Re: Being kind to clients

[burton@openprivacy.org]

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Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk> writes:

> 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?

Yeah..  A lot of servers aren't using HTTP correctly... their Last-modified is
always the current date because they dynamically generate their content.

So even though their content isn't updated in weeks they still report that it
was updated run then... :(

Kevin

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Given the price-conscious nature of this sector, Linux would be the odds-on
favorite, since it typically costs no more than a fifth the price of Windows
2000. 
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