I'm doing this same "anti-aliasing" of feed URLs by using
//atom:feed/id elements. The "self" link (which is in the 0.2 spec)
doesn't work right in practice, methinks. Not sure how well we'll
define this for 0.3 though.

-Brett

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Pádraic Brady <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Not sure if its relevant in terms of the reference hub, but my Subscriber
> has trouble with your feed. What it's doing is accepting your Atom feed URI
> "http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ongoing.atom"; and then attempting to verify
> the location of the feed, i.e. to rule out redirects etc. To do this, it
> parses the feed for an atom link with a rel attribute of "self". In the case
> of your feed, however, the href attribute seems to be empty - so my
> Subscriber passes back an exception stating that the feed's final location
> could not be verified.
>
> I'd expect the Hub to be making a similar check in verifying the
> subscription details. It's a total stretch, but since this seems to breach
> the Atom specification it's possibly related. See
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287#section-4.2.7
>
> Paddy
>
> Pádraic Brady
>
> http://blog.astrumfutura.com
> http://www.survivethedeepend.com
> OpenID Europe Foundation Irish Representative
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Tim Bray <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Mon, October 19, 2009 8:06:45 PM
> Subject: [pubsubhubbub] How to check what pubsubhubbub.appspot.com is doing?
>
>
> I *think* I'm pinging appspot when I update (it goes into the code
> that does so and doesn't report any errors) but I look into my
> logfiles and don't see any accesses from appspot since about 7PM last
> night.  Is there a way to find out when appspot thinks I've pinged it?
>
> Hey, my publishing system is 2500 lines of Perl in one file that I
> wrote in a few days in 2002, what could possibly go wrong...
>
> -Tim
>

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