http://blog.teledyn.com/node/1496 Comments for "The End of RSS" en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/1496 <p>It was a freight train headed my way for some time, I could see the pressure building weeks in advance. Middle last week the levy finally broke through, first at 10pm, then at 6pm, finally at about noon: <img src="http://www.disaster.qld.gov.au/photogallery/images/thumb10.jpg" alt="" height="111" width="158" class="right" /></p> <blockquote><p><tt><small><span class="caps">TRAFFIC ALERT FOR </span>teledyn.com <br /> 99% of your daily traffic quota has been used with 12:50.16 of your daily cycle elapsed.</small></tt></p></blockquote> <p>At the top of the webstats, the smoking gun: 30,000 requests for the Drupal-generated <span class="caps">RSS </span>feed from <a href="http://www.teledyn.com/">teledyn.com</a>.</p> <h3>What about <tt>If-Modified-Since</tt>?</h3> <p>That was my first thought: These <em>can't</em> be 30,000 unique requests, so why don't they all just register 304 codes telling them I haven't posted a new story to that site in days? Isn't that what <span class="caps">RSS </span>protocol is all about? </p> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/1496#comments the skin of culture Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:24:06 -0500 mrG 1496 at http://blog.teledyn.com