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0 pointsttepasse8y ago0 comments

HTTP 301 Moved Permanently is the out of band control channel. Sometimes it even seems to work, depending on software of course.

There was also a typical Dave-Wineresque invention of replacing the old feed with some special, non-namespaced XML with the redirect: http://www.rssboard.org/redirect-rss-feed

But of course the real problem is social. As in people simply stop blogging or stop caring. And of course tool developers don't care if someone doesn't want to use their software anymore and don't think of developing the right buttons for this edgecase.

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derefr8y ago

> HTTP 301 Moved Permanently is the out of band control channel.

True, but requires you to be able to set response codes on the server. I can't make my Github Pages site, or my Tumblr blog, or my S3 bucket, emit a 301. And those are the sorts of things that RSS was designed for: static sites that can't just, say, tell their backend to email people on update. You'd think that, knowing that, RSS et al would have been designed with in-band, rather than out-of-band, control.

acdha8y ago

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/how-to-page-r...

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