Re: [syndication] Scraper code?

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

> Nope they don't need to match up the feeds to the aggregators because
> the input post contains that matching:
> <a href="fooB?action=subscribe&feed=BlogA.rss">common button</a>
> It just dawned on me that fooB ~should~ be able to pick up the feed via
> the referal, but in practice it probably can't so that it would be
> included in the post variables.

How is the address of the service (fooB) known by the site? If I read you
correctly, it's carried in a cookie. How does that cookie get set, and
what's its domain?


> The fooB kind of script pages don't need to maintain a database of feeds
> because that is input to them.  They do have to maintain a list of
> aggregators and the URI format for each.  The user's cookie for fooB
> contains the other variable which is what their chosen aggregators are.
>  Note I said aggregator(s), no reason why you couldn not have more than
> one.

OK. Could you spell out what the contents of the cookie are? (or did I
miss it?)