Posted by Toby A Inkster on 11/30/07 11:15

eastcoastguyz wrote:

> Thank you! I see now. What really confused me was that wget and curl
> said they didn't support "feed:".

This is a deliberate choice of the designers of the URI scheme -- indeed
it's the whole point of it. They wanted a way to reference a feed in such
a way that browsers would not attempt to open it.

It's an entirely broken idea. The feed should simply be marked with the
correct MIME type and left up to the user's system to decide whether it
should be opened in the browser or a more specialist application.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/11/28/itunes-sharing/

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