September 14, 2004

RSS and Delta Encoding

Bob Wyman responded and suggested i implement RFC3229 to make proxies and caches behave nicely with sending only modified content.


The new wp-rss2.php file does just that.


The downside? Apache does not support the HTTP 226 response code required by the spec. So i submitted an enhancement request, and included the patch, to the Apache httpd developers. The BugID is 31228. Go vote for it if you like.


P.S. I’ll update my aggregator, SynGen, to support the delta encoding when appropriate. I used curl from the command-line to test the code above.


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