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Re: [syndication] Scraper code?



Bill Kearney wrote:
Manipulating metadata in Web servers is a big problem, yes. However, most
*do* allow setting content-types and other headers if there's even a
minimal amount of administrative access (cacheability headers are also an
area that suffer because of this). Worst case scenario, a CGI or other
server-side script can be used to set the Content-Type...
    
I strongly disagree.  Most hosted situations do not, by default, allow for
.htaccess manipulations.  They indeed SHOULD allow for this but out of the box
most do not.  So if we're going to help the thousands of users out there we need
to give consideration to the reality they're working within.
Yes, I can attest to this first hand, as I am one of those unlucky individuals who cannot server RDF, or RSS with the appropriate content types from my domains which are hosted at Interland :(     I think we need a low tech solution to these problems that can be deployed right now and be effective right now.  The script that I proposed yesterday is just such a solution.  It seem to me that the W3C arguing that  we have a starndard that if everybody uses correctly will solve the problem, but then ignoing the painful fact that everybody can not and\or will not (for whatever reasons) use their standard, does not help at all.  But what it does do is to work against a real solution emerging ...

... and what it feels like is "Let them eat cake".  

Seth Russell