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http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/index.atomSam RubyIt’s just dataSam Rubyrubys@intertwingly.nethttp://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005-08-10T17:21:20-04:00tag:intertwingly.net,2004:1142RSS Content Type
Tim Bray: At the moment, there doesn't seem to
be much agreement about what Media-type to use for RSS files.
Userland, which is kind of the RSS industry leader, serves them as
text/xml. Infoworld,
a fairly sophisticated tech pub, uses text/html.
Mark Pilgrim, a popular
blogger who thinks really hard about these things, uses
application/rss+xml.
It seems to me that it should match what you use on the
link tag.
2003-01-21T11:04:00-05:00tag:intertwingly.net,2004:1142-1043167472http://jasonbell.blog-city.comformJason Bellhttp://jasonbell.blog-city.comJason BellRSS Content Type
Sam, I was thinking about this yesterday when I was drafting a servlet example for the rsslibj project. I just ended up setting the content type to text/xml.
2003-01-21T11:44:32-05:00tag:intertwingly.net,2004:1142-1043169140http://diveintomark.org/formMarkhttp://diveintomark.org/MarkRSS Content Type
Ian Hickson, who taught me everything I know about MIME types, says that all external files should match the type attribute of their LINK tag.
2003-01-21T12:12:00-05:00tag:intertwingly.net,2004:1142-1043214201http://www.bstpierre.org/index.html/2003/01/22#00000379trackbackNot Quite Random
RSS Content Type
Good point. Done! It might be nice if there were a warning about this in the validator....
2003-01-22T00:43:21-05:00tag:intertwingly.net,2004:1142-1043243586http://www.pipetree.com/qmacroformDJhttp://www.pipetree.com/qmacroDJRSS Content Type
I agree with you Sam. I'd noticed this fleetingly before, but had totally forgotten about it until you reminded me. It's not as if one scours HTTP headers on a normal basis...
A quick note too - Blosxom users, don't trip up like I did :-/
2003-01-22T08:53:06-05:00tag:intertwingly.net,2004:1142-1043249077http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/formSam Rubyhttp://www.intertwingly.net/blog/Sam RubyRSS Content Type
Oopsie - caught me too. For those that care, my index.rss is "classic 0.91" and remains text/xml. I have an alternate feed, index.rss2, which is rss 2.0. My HTML's link tag specifies my rss2 feed.
The fix to my heavily hacked up blosxom was to change:
if ($content_type eq 'text/xml')
to:
if ($content_type =~ /xml/)
2003-01-22T10:24:37-05:00tag:intertwingly.net,2004:1142-1043249304http://www.pipetree.com/qmacroformDJhttp://www.pipetree.com/qmacroDJRSS Content Type
2003-01-22T10:28:24-05:00tag:intertwingly.net,2004:1142-1043253264http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/formSam Rubyhttp://www.intertwingly.net/blog/Sam RubyRSS Content Type
DJ - I like your fix better. I've changed my code to match.
2003-01-22T11:34:24-05:00tag:intertwingly.net,2004:1142-1043262685http://dannyayers.comformDannyhttp://dannyayers.comDannyRSS Content Type
For RSS 1.0 there's another alternative : application/rdf+xml
(though text/xml would be my personal choice at present)
2003-01-22T14:11:25-05:00tag:intertwingly.net,2004:1142-1044059734http://www.bstpierre.org/index.html/./2003/Jan/22#00000379excerptNot Quite RandomRSS Content Type
Tim Bray:At the moment, there doesn't seem to be much agreement about what Media-type to use for RSS files. Sam Ruby:It seems to me that it should match what you use on the link tag. Good point. Done! It might be nice if there were a warning about...
2003-01-31T14:35:41-05:00tag:intertwingly.net,2004:1142-1047576922http://radio.weblogs.com/0001122/2003/01/21.html#a147excerptdb's Radio WeblogRSS Content Type
The End of Chimera? Mike Pinkerton isn't sure he wants to continue developing Chimera. Mike's the leader of the Chimera project. Chimera is a Mozilla/Gecko-based browser for MacOS X that is JUST a browser: no mail, news, or IRC. It's a lot smaller...