Re: How to syndicate articles?

["rayhan" <rayhan@hotmail.com>]

Hello Bill,

Thanks for a detailed analysis.  I have been researching this for a 
week now and have not found another solution, so you are right, it 
does seem to be a pain in the ass, not to mention about wasted 
bandwidth and unreliability of the solution.

I think I would have to go with the SSI-type solution.  The only 
problem with that is that anytime I make a change, I would have to 
update the articles on all the servers manually, but that might be 
better (at least for the time being).

Thanks again.

rayhan



--- In syndication@y..., "wkearney99" <wkearney99@h...> wrote:
> > Is there a way to syndicate articles, such that they will always 
> > appear within the "look and feel" of the sites, even when a
> > link is 
> > followed to another article?
> 
> Sure, but you're going to have to do some work.
> 
> You could give each subscribing site their own lead-in URL to your 
> locally stored articles.  Use that inbound URL to display the 
> article.  You'd have to keep a locally stored copy of their site 
> templating to make this work in a visually compatible fashion.  
This 
> would be a real pain in the ass to keep current.  You'd have to 
> constantly keep your local templates 'in sync' with the referring 
> site. 
> 
> You could keep your content locally and have their servers use 
server-
> side processing to go grab your content, put it in their HTML and 
> then push it to the clients.  This is a problem in that it would 
> require the server to do all the processing.  Doing it in per-page 
> view server-side pages would drag a copy from your site, into their 
> site, process it and then push it back out as HTML.  Really too 
much 
> work and wasted bandwidth.  They could grab your content and keep 
it 
> cached locally but they'd have to make some efforts to be sure 
their 
> local copy was 'fresh'.
> 
> The servers could also put browser-side code into their pages that 
> would have the client do all the work.  The client would have to 
pull 
> your content from your site and then integrate it into the page.  
The 
> hassle here is that the server would have to keep a ton of browser-
> specific alternatives for that code.  Again, a real pain in the ass.
> 
> The short answer?  Put your content into the subscriber server and 
be 
> done with it.  While what you want to do is technically feasible, 
the 
> state of servers, browsers and network reliability make this just 
too 
> fragile to implement reliably.  Well, not without paying beaucoup 
> dinero to people like akmai...
> 
> -Bill Kearney