Date: 08/17/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: rss, asp, web, google

Does anyone know of a Web Service that will receive an RSS URL and return a boolean value that can be used in an automated application (ASP.NET VB.NET)? I'm working on something that manages RSS feeds and parses them in order to achieve some tasks however it would make life a lot easier if I could validate the feed before entering it into the system.

Does anyone know of a Web Service that does this?

I've been looking through google results and I found a reference to an alpha web service validator from way back in 2002, however it doesnt seem to be up anymore and I havent found any other links.

All other validators pretty much seem to explicitly say to not hit them with automated queries.

any ideas?

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2474

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