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RSS & BT Together?
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.
...practical ways. It's a nice program, I've used it on occasssion but it does have its share of bugs.
And setting up a server isn't quite easy.
It really could be a lot better with some work.
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Of course it hasn't caused any problems. It's a couple folks every half hour. Try a few thousand folks every minute (imagine it's a metaserver for some online game, or a blog during a major news event).
Still, I'm not seeing anything beyond the "duh" factor here. All that needs to happen is for browsers to handle torrent links. Not some souped up napster app, a browser, so that I can type in a torrent link and get any web page (or other mime doc) for the browser to handle. Change the RSS to use the new URL scheme, and there you go. You could also do it as a proxy, but you run into worse cache coherency issues than with direct support of the protocol; who's to say who has the correct mapping of the content url to the torrent url?
Good luck, mind you, on getting anything but blogs, download sites, and perhaps hobby news sites to jump on board. This issue has been beaten to death in the IETF and many other circles, and it all boils down to content control -- the NY Times simply doesn't want its content mirrored like that.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
> A well behaved program won't go GETs on every RSS page, but will do HEADS,
> compare them to what it already has, and decide from there
> to get or not get the new page.
An even more behaved program will issue a GET with the "If-Modified-Since: " header, which will mean the server will return a "304 - not modified" if the file hasn't changed, or the actual file if it has.. Thus doing in one operation what a combined HEAD and followup GET would take 2 to do.
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