Make use of HTTP cache. Send Etag and LastModified headers. Recognize 304 Not modified response. This way you can save a lot of bandwidth. Additionally some scripts recognize the LastModified header and return only partial contents (ie. only the two or three newest items instead of all 30 or so). Don’t poll RSS from services … Read more
It appears that ATOM allows the following syntax (first Google result for ‘ATOM feed next/previous‘): <link rel=”self” type=”application/atom+xml” href=”http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=3″/> <link rel=”first” href=”http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php”/> <link rel=”next” href=”http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=4″/> <link rel=”previous” href=”http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=2″/> <link rel=”last” href=”http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=147″/> I can’t find anything on RSS, but as it’s called “really simple syndication” I’d imagine such functionality is outside its scope.
The fundamental thing that the Atom creators didn’t understand (and that the Atom supporters still don’t understand), is that Atom isn’t somehow separate from RSS. There’s this idea that RSS fractured, and that somehow Atom fixes that problem. But it doesn’t. Atom is just another RSS splinter. A new name doesn’t change the fact that … Read more
You don’t need to write your own conversion code. Just use XmlConvert.ToDateTime(string s, XmlDateTimeSerializationMode dateTimeOption) to parse a RFC-3339 string, and XmlConvert.ToString(DateTime value, XmlDateTimeSerializationMode dateTimeOption) to convert a (UTC) datetime to a string. Ref. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162342(v=vs.110).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162344(v=vs.110).aspx
You want https://github.com/whatever/commits/master.atom, like for the Cloudera flume repository it’s https://github.com/cloudera/flume/commits/master.atom.
I’ve always used the SimpleXML functions built in to PHP to parse XML documents. It’s one of the few generic parsers out there that has an intuitive structure to it, which makes it extremely easy to build a meaningful class for something specific like an RSS feed. Additionally, it will detect XML warnings and errors, … Read more