>>Is there a standard method for providing head information
>>for RSS
>>feeds?

> Isaac: Yep... it's called Conditional GET. The idea is
> that the server provides ETag and Last-Modified headers on
> every request, and the client stores them away. The next
> time the client sends a request, it sends that info back,
> and the server determines in things have changed since the
> last request. If there have been changes, the server
> responds with the feed... if not, it responds with a 304.
<snip>

Thanks Roger! Very much appreciated. :)


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