Saturday, January 15, 2005, 6:59:12 PM, you wrote:
> Tim Bray wrote: >> On Jan 15, 2005, at 1:05 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: >> >>> Seems to me like making a source-URI reference a SHOULD would help >>> solve an immediate problem, irrespective of the hypothetical problem >>> of copying. >> >> >> I see no downside. There are going to be scenarios where it's not >> reliable, but there are going to be lots where it's useful. >> > Well, it does make it easy for me to put entries in your feed. > Robert Sayre Would something like this fix it? It might require the feed to be fetched twice, but it is only at subscription time. BTW - Is it really impossible to obtain the location that a feed was fetched from on IE/Win? IE manages it for CDF files, and I believe that Acrobat files are streamed by Acrobat when you click on link. 11.1 Verifying the Authenticity of Self Links If an atom:head element contains a Link construct where the "rel" attribute is "self", software processing the document SHOULD NOT assume that the URI specified by the "href" attribute is genuine unless the software can confirm that the URI matches the URI that the document was obtained from. Software that cannot verify the authenticity of the self link, SHOULD refetch the Atom document using the self link. -- Dave
