Bad RSS readers http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/archives/entries/000282.html How about we all start mining our server logs and start 'outing' the bad RSS readers? Ones that don't: honor... wkearney 2003-04-23T07:33:05-05:00 http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/archives/entries/000282.html en-us Geek 5 How about we all start mining our server logs and start 'outing' the bad RSS readers? Ones that don't: honor... 2003-04-23T07:33:05-05:00 How about we all start mining our server logs and start 'outing' the bad RSS readers? Ones that don't:
  • honor scheduling instructions
  • use gzip to save bandwidth
  • follow and learn from redirects
  • use eTags
  • understand HTTP headers

At the same time it looks like it might be worth applying the same logic to the sites serving the feeds. There are plenty that don't offer compressed feeds, don't supply eTags and don't have schedule information in them.

Before we bother with extending all this, let's get the core stuff working first.

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