Re: New URI scheme talk in RSS-land

On Dec 6, 2003, at 10:09 AM, Dare Obasanjo wrote:

> If we have a MIME type that always involves invoking a separate 
> application when a user clicks on a feed how does one perform HTTP 
> GETs on the feed to view the XML content in their browser then? So 
> does this mean servers have to use separate MIME types for the same 
> file or that the assumption is that no one will ever want to click on 
> a feed and see the actual content in their web browser? Both seem like 
> gross hacks to me.

I suspect that anyone who really wants to see the XML source code is 
probably capable of right-click-to-download or wget or some other way 
around the problem.  -Tim