Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

NOTE: use Perl; is on undef hiatus. You can read content, but you can't post it. More info will be forthcoming forthcomingly.

use Perl

All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

RSS and NNTP More | Login | Reply

The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to use the classic discussion system instead. If you login, you can remember this preference.

ETags and Last Modified? (Score:1)

by srushe (874) on 2003.05.27 7:26 (#20535) Homepage

Would Etag and Last Modified not prove useful? If a requesting client specified one or the other then you get the entries since the last time. If there are only a few then provide the full content, otherwise provide the headlines.

Obviously if the client end doesn't provide that information then continue with the current setup.

Regardless of all of this, congratulations. It's a wonderful resource in it's current state.

--
Steve Rushe - www.deeden.co.uk

Reply to This
- Re:ETags and Last Modified? (Score:3, Insightful)
  
  by ziggy (25)
  
  Would Etag and Last Modified not prove useful?
  A better-defined replacement for RSS would be more useful. A specification that approximates the less useful half of NNTP doesn't improve when ad-hoc extensions are added to provide one or two more NNTP features on a per-feed basis.

Get More Comments

Stories, comments, journals, and other submissions on use Perl; are Copyright 1998-2006, their respective owners.