Re: [syndication] NetNewsWire's referer

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> Uhhh Bill, I think you're confusing NetNewsWire with UserLand.

No, no confusion at all.  Radio does this.  Do not presuppose as to correct me.

My point what was reader programs are following Frontier/Radio's example.  That
example is of questionable merit HTTP standards-wise.  There is no context of
'referral' in a reader program's access to a feed.  The reader URI is certainly
not the referring URL.

A Manila host doesn't expose the access OR agent logs, apparently this
necessitated hacking referring for this purpose.  The question posed by the
reader was why a reader program was misusing the HTTP header in this fashion.
The history behind this situation is relevant.  That the developer of
NetNewsWire was once employed by Userland also helps explain the situation.

> It's not our product. Wish it were, though, I hear it's really good.

Yes indeed, Brent's done an excellent job making his own product.

-Bill Kearney

> From: "Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>
> To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 5:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [syndication] NetNewsWire's referer
>
> > So faking the whole thing in the referral log was/is an easier
> > means to feed the lust for log monitoring. Talk about a hack.