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Re: [syndication] General purpose scrapers and bandwidth



Phil Ringnalda <phil@philringnalda.com> wrote:
The first thing I'd do would be to add two lines: at the very start,
ob_start(); and at the very end, require('cgi_buffer.php');  -  mnot's CGI
Buffer [1] buys you immediate E-Tag support, so even though you'll still
have to get the HTML and parse it, at least you can return a 304 instead of
the whole RSS file when nothing's changed

Interesting. Thanks for that.

, and if you have PHP
compiled --with-zlib you'll also get gzip encoding for those aggregators
that support it. Or, if your server has mod_gzip, add

The new server has zlib enabled in php and zlib.output_compression on. I wonder how many RSS readers actually support this and etags. Presumably anything based on curl will do it automatically. Probably anything based on dotnet as well.

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