Re: [syndication] Scraper code?

["Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>]

> >Well, there will always be different buttons, depending on the software
on
> >the other end; I never bought into the "XML" button concept;
standardizing
> >UI for these things is generally bad.
>
> With that kind of thinking we never would have gotten the general
> purpose UI that goes under the name Web Browsers.

HTML is a fine standard. However, it doesn't tell you to use a particular
colour, icon or word when linking to a text file vs. an executable (for
example). This is the same issue.


> Well I'm a bit beyond my deapth here, but here goes anyway.   How about
> a combination of a  <a href="foo?action=subscribe&feed=bar">common
> button</a> and a user preference selection at a web site.   Then foo is
> the URI of a script that interacts with a user preference for a specific
> local or golbal resource.   The script page would display a simple
> selection of known aggregators and the user simply selects the radio
> button and the resultant post is to the local or global resource.  The
> foo could be common to all blogs,  so that the user's preference for foo
> could be kept in their cookie and a user would need to select it only
> once.   Whould that work?

What if they don't know about my aggregator, or one that's run behind a
firewall?

It can certainly be done using cookies and a centralized registry, but you
lose the flexibility of leveraging the mechanisms that HTTP gives you.