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by James Robertson.
Original Post: SmallBlog RSS feed links don't work?
Feed Title: Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants
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Actually, Smallblog RSS feeds do work, although I had to do some workin BottomFeeder to deal with them. Hitting the RSS feed url gives you a 302 (temporary redirect) to a funky url. Things work just fine if your RSS reader distinguishes a 301 (permanent relocation) from a 302 (temporary). BottomFeeder does - it leaves the feed url alone, and gets the 302 on each update cycle. I suspect that some readers treat 301 and 302 the same - and remap the feed url. This causes a problem on the next update cycle, as the new feed url was, in reality, only temporary (due to the way it's implemented in SmallBlog).
I actually prefer the way I do feeds in the Cincom Smalltalk blog server - I drop an actual XML file for the web server to deal with on each update. That allows compliant RSS readers to use conditional-get on the feed without my having to do anything - and it also reduces the dynamic load on the server a lot
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