> > HTTP provides a possible solution to this in the form of a weak entity > tag. Also, Feed delta encoding could be leveraged to further mitigate > the potential issues.
ETag are not reliable without If-Modified-Since header and they are not as wide spreaded. > > I would suspect that you currently have the same problems with folks > that use the highly popular slash:comments RSS extension. FTE is not > introducing any new problems, nor is it seeking to fix existing problems > in the feed syndication model. This is rather sad. So because others are broken we should not do better. - Sylvain
