NewsGator HTTP report card

Mark Pilgrim recently posted a set of feeds to test proper HTTP support in aggregators. Here’s how NewsGator fares. Note that you won’t be able to test these yourself, as Mark’s test feeds are Atom feeds; this was based on NewsGator 1.3 beta code with Atom support. “Success” below means NewsGator behaved correctly according to the spec.

• 200 - success
• 220 - success
• 300 - success
• 301 - success
• 302 - success
• 307 - eek, this was broken. Fixed for 1.3.
• 320 - success
• 400 - success
• 404 - success
• 410 - not implemented in 1.2, but added to 1.3 (feed will be removed when this status code is returned)
• 420 - success
• 500 - success
• 520 - success
• 403 - success
• gzip - success
• etag - success
• last-modified - success
• authentication - success

The two marked with * succeeded according to the network traces I have, but I believe the feeds are broken. I’ll update this when I hear back from Mark about it.

Update: the etag and last-modified feeds are now fixed and working correctly - thanks Mark. NewsGator also succeeds with the new authentication test.