Re: Yet another APP client

[James M Snell]

We're serving up our feeds with auth and ssl.

Julian Reschke wrote:
> James M Snell wrote:
>> Hey, I never said I *wasn't* abusing the headers ;-) Can you say
>> serendipitous hack? ;-)
>>
>> What we're doing may not be 100% per spec, but it doesn't seem to cause
>> any problems either... other than some nominal wierdness in feed readers
>> that support conditional gets but don't keep a feed history (like
>> Firefox Live Bookmarks).  In other words, assuming that some offenses
>> are more egregious than others, this is kind of like a rolling stop
>> through a four way intersection in the middle of the desert when there
>> aren't any other vehicles around.
> 
> I would expect to see problems as soon as cacheing HTTP proxies are in
> the request path.
> 
> Best regards, Julian
>