- From: Seairth Jacobs <seairth@seairth.com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 21:48:39 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
So what if the feed must be be accessed over HTTPS? Do we then also need a "feeds" scheme? How about this instead: create a new scheme called "handler" (or maybe "mime-handler") that has a format like: handler:application/rss+xml;http://example.org/feed.rss or generically "handler:mime-type;uri". Now the mime-type can be used to determine the appropriate application and the uri can be passed to that application directly. This is generic, flexible, and simple. This way, if you have one application for processing RSS 1.0 (because it's RDF and you like to do more than just read the entries), another for RSS 2.0 (because your RDF tool won't like it), and another for processing Atom (because your RSS reader won't like it), your various applications won't trip over each other as much as they would if they all recognized the "feed" or "subscribe" schemes. Seairth Jacobs http://www.seairth.com
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