RE: [syndication] site-wide metadata discovery

["Chad Everett" <yahoogroups@jayseae.cxliv.org>]

Don't know that I'd qualify to answer, but I'll give it a go.

Site-Index: default
Public-Feeds: myPublicFeeds.opml

*** I added the "default" to the Site-Index field, since that draft info I
posted seems to require a value on that field, rather than just the field
name.  It also seems to read a bit better.  ***

A value other than "default" may work better here, but I'm out of ideas for
the moment.  :)

Add the example above to your robots.txt file.  Now you just need to parse
the file looking for the default Site-Index, then look through that
recordset (until the next blank line) to find the value of Public-Feeds, and
use that value as the file name.

Then retrieve the file (myPublicFeeds.opml) in the current location
(http://blogs.law.harvard.edu).

Chad.


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@userland.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 6:12 PM
To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [syndication] site-wide metadata discovery


Cool. Thanks for the reference.

Now let's set up a test case?

1. My OPML file is here..

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/myPublicFeeds.opml

2. My robots.txt is here..

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/robots.txt

3. How would I modify my robots.txt to point to my OPML file?

Dave





----- Original Message -----
From: "Chad Everett" <yahoogroups@jayseae.cxliv.org>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:52 PM
Subject: RE: [syndication] site-wide metadata discovery


> Hi Dave -
>
> Thanks for the vote of confidence.  :)
>
> Here's where I found that text:
>
> http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html
>
> Under "The Format", at the end of the sentence just prior to "User-agent".
>
> It actually says "Unrecognised headers are ignored".  I took some small,
> hopefully irrelevant, liberties with my interpretation.  :)
>
> Chad.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@userland.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:44 PM
> To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [syndication] site-wide metadata discovery
>
>
> This is a very interesting idea.
>
> I just went for a quick look and couldn't find where it says "unrecognized
> headers should be ignored."
>
> And then we'd have to know if it works in practice too, just because a
spec
> says robots should work some way doesn't mean they do.
>
> But kudos for coming up with a new angle. Worth exploring, imho.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
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