On Jan 11, 2007, at 09:34, Hugh Sasse wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Eric Hodel wrote: >> On Jan 11, 2007, at 08:46, Hugh Sasse wrote: >>> Yes, RSS is the way to go for this. However, I wish to raise the >>> point that the Ruby net/HTTP class doesn't support content encoding >>> transparently yet: >> >> What does this have to do with serving RSS? > > We are proposing to increase the amount of RSS served by this host. > This will increase the load on said host. > Given that the audience is rubyists, there will be people accessing > this by means of Ruby. > The fact that Ruby doesn't yet support the compression feature out > of the box means that any load increase is maximized.
Actually, I bet people will be using things like RSS readers, not net/ http, to read the feeds. > However, given that same audience, it might be that someone has had > an idea about how to solve this cleanly, so we can do something to > improve the situation. That latter part is probably worth moving to > ruby-core. Submit patches for the existing RSS libraries to the respective authors? -- Eric Hodel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://blog.segment7.net I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE! _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
