Comments on: MIME types and feed: again

By: Pete Hopkins

Pete Hopkins — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:51:47 +0000

Danny --

TypePad's RSS isn't self-referential. There's a link back to the site itself, but not any RSS file on the site.

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By: Greg Reinacker

Greg Reinacker — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:52:16 +0000

Yeah, it’s Content-type…however, to get IIS to send a specific content-type for a certain file, you need access to the IIS admin console.

By: Gordon Weakliem

Gordon Weakliem — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:18:23 +0000

I don’t get your comment on being unable to change MIME types on the server, isn’t it just the Content-Type header, or is there more to it?

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xt1 blog :: Subscribing to RSS Feeds — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 14:26:05 +0000

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By: Danny

Danny — Sun, 07 Dec 2003 23:01:22 +0000

I initially argued against the MIME approach because of the need to make the server-side change. But after checking with a couple of hosting providers I'm pretty sure only a small number of people would have real problems.

Re. this approach and RSS - RSS 1.0 (Movable Type, TypePad and many more) already has a link to the channel URI. RSS 2.0 can use a namespace-qualified element. Or (as Joe put it) it is another good reason to upgrade to Atom.

My my, it looks like users of other Userland versions of RSS will just have to buy Radio Userland...