I'd like to propose a new lab, speedyfeed. Speedyfeed is a set of utilities designed to allow on-the-fly optimization of Atom feeds as they are being served, for example by dropping entries that you can deduce the user has already seen via their If-Modified-Since or ETags headers. The initial implementation is via an Apache module (mod_speedyfeed), which I've been playing around with for some time, but I'm also planning on writing a version that works as a Java servlet filter (via Apache Abdera), and on making improvements to the existing codebase (it's currently rather out of date, only supports Atom 0.9, etc). I also imagine that eventually it will be made to support more extensive optimizations, dropping useless whitespace, etc.
Note that while mod_speedyfeed has existed for some time, it is essentially just an experiment. It has no users that I'm aware of, and I suspect that the grand total number of people who have actually compiled its code could be counted on one hand ;-) The DOAP for the proposed lab is located here: http://people.apache.org/~rooneg/speedyfeed-doap.xml -garrett --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
