Tuesday, May 16, 2006, 11:18:04 AM, Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote:

> Hi everyone,

> These days It seems that when UAs request a server to check if a feed has
> changed the server responds with either an HTTP 304 Not Modified status
> code or by returning the updated feed.

> It looks to me as a problem if only one or a couple of entries have been
> updated within the feed as it wastes so much bandwith specially when the
> said feed contains all entries being produced on the server.

Check out "A-IM: feed" [1]. It is already implemented by lots of
aggregators, and it is trivial for client implementors to support.

[1] http://bobwyman.pubsub.com/main/2004/09/using_rfc3229_w.html


-- 
Dave

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