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Thu, 24 Apr 2003
Fixing aggregators
A few folks e-mailed/commented to get the ball rolling on this:
Jason Brume wrote to say that nntp//rss 0.3+ supports gzip compression. My logs confirm this.
Joseph Ottinger, one of the authors of RSSLibJ wrote to say that RSSLibJ uses a stream that someone else passes to process RSS, so that its the callers problem. That's probably true. It would be good if the FAQ told people that they should support GZip and ETags and so forth. Most of the problems that Bill and I (and others I'm sure) are interested in are going to be upstream from RSSLibJ
So here's the current score on RSS Aggregators and GZip:
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- Aggie 1.0 RC5 - supported
- AmphetaDesk - no support planned until after 1.0
- Bottom Feeder - supported
- Channel Buddy - couldn't find a web site for these guys
- effnews - supported
- Hep - supported in 0.4
- java.blogs aggregator - no plans to implement GZip support
- NetNewsWire - added to feature request list
- Newsgator - support in an unspecified future version
- nntp//rss - supported in 0.3
- ping.blog.gs - awaiting a reply
- Radio Userland - awaiting a reply - Help Dave!
- RSS Bandit - needs support
- SharpReader - needs support
- Straw - supported
- Syndirella - support planned for 0.92 but no longer being maintained
- Wildgrape NewsDesk - support in an unspecified future release
Radio does not, as far as I know support Gzip. I think there's an extension that does it, written by Andre Radke, and it probably could easily be added to the aggregator.
Posted by Dave Winer at Thu Apr 24 13:19:35 2003
Posted by Dave Winer at Thu Apr 24 13:19:35 2003
I'm responsible for Channel Buddy. It's not publicly available, and is currently used by a total of two people in the world, so I think you can safely ignore it :-)
For the record, it doesn't have any support for gzip. I dare say I'll add it if it becomes necessary, but probably not before.
Regards
Andy Mc
Posted by Andy McMullan at Fri Apr 25 01:02:47 2003
For the record, it doesn't have any support for gzip. I dare say I'll add it if it becomes necessary, but probably not before.
Regards
Andy Mc
Posted by Andy McMullan at Fri Apr 25 01:02:47 2003
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