Re: Redirecting RSS

["Tristan Louis <tristan@tnl.net>" <tristan@tnl.net>]

I'd like to get a little bit more of a consensus on there. What do
other members feel when it comes the best way to handle this: 

Simple redirect on the server end 
or
A item that says: This feed has been redirected ?


--- In syndication@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@i...> wrote:
> 
> > A useful answer which should work fine on the RSS 1.0 feed BUT (and
> > isn't there always a but :)  ) RSS .91 does not support namespaces
> > hence it is impossible to use a DC method to redirect those feeds. The
> > interesting thing here is the constraint. I don't want to create a
> > "broken" RSS .91 implementation and introducing a DC element would
> > break it.
> 
> Correct, in 0.9x there's not a 'valid' way to add new elements. 
Many feeds put
> in a lone item that says "HEY I'VE MOVED THIS TO x".  My suggestion
about using
> DC was to allow the URL at 'x' to contain a back reference to the
old one.  This
> way a reader smart enough to see the tag could double-check that
it's not still
> reading the old one.  Using HTTP redirection is the only way to
'force' dumb
> programs to still get content.  Many are supposedly checking the
redirects and
> rearranging their subscription URLs accordingly.
> 
> > BTW, all my feeds on syndic8 have been marked (I added a note to them
> > about redirect) but FYI, they were Syndic8 ID 2169 and 2461.
> 
> Now they're redirected to:
> http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=22627
> 
Oops, that works for the RSS .91 feed but the RSS 1.0 is at 
http://www.tnl.net/channels/rss100newsletter.xml but thanks for doing
this :) 

TNL


> -Bill Kearney