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by Paul Brown.
Original Post: Hotel Broadband Ate My Feeds
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I travel more than I'd like (according to my frequently flier summary, I've spent literally two continuous months of my life on United planes), and hotel broadband connections turned into a new hazard on a recent trip.Most of the hotel broadband access systems use a browser as a client and capture an initial HTTP interaction by sending an HTTP 3xx (usually 302) response code to redirect to the "buy internet access" page. Unfortunately, if I'm resuming from a suspend, this fools NetNewsWire into changing the feed URLs for all of the RSS feeds to the URL for the "buy internet access" page, meaning that my 200+ feeds are all gone… (I haven't tested Shrook.)I now back up my feeds into an OPML document before any trip, but it would be nice (hint hint) if RSS readers allowed users to configure the reader's response to HTTP 3xx responses.
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