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RSS & BT Together?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the duct-taping-together-the-next-generation-of-p2p dept.

AntiPasto writes "According to this Yahoo! News article, RSS and BitTorrent could be set to join in a best-of-both-worlds content management system for the net. Possible?" Update: 03/17 21:39 GMT by T : Thanks to Steve Gillmor, here's the original story on eWeek to replace the now-dead Yahoo! link.

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  1. Konspire2b by Dooferlad · · Score: 5, Informative

    Konspire2b looks like a better option than BitTorrent for distributing news. You could have a channel mapping to an RSS feed and just wait for the news to come to you. No polling intervals and low bandwidth requirements for the operator. With BitTorrent you still have to poll for updates and this removes that requirement.

  2. Use conditional GET, not HEAD by NonaMyous · · Score: 5, Informative
    An even better behaved program will use conditional GET instead of HEAD. For more info, see HTTP Conditional Get for RSS Hackers :
    The people who invented HTTP came up with something even better. HTTP allows you to say to a server in a single query: "If this document has changed since I last looked at it, give me the new version. If it hasn't just tell me it hasn't changed and give me nothing." This mechanism is called "Conditional GET", and it would reduce 90% of those significant 24,000 byte queries into really trivial 200 byte queries.