It is my understanding that iTunes will continue to attempt to fetch a
feed marked "Gone" (HTTP status code 410). Example:
http://feedparser.org/tests/wellformed/itunes/gone.xml
To be blunt, you should stop doing that. Unlike 404 errors, which are
by definition transient and could be caused by any number of temporary
conditions (including client-side connection errors like being
unauthenticated behind a poorly-written authentication proxy in a
pay-by-the-hour internet cafe), no one uses HTTP 410 Gone unless they
really mean it. I am not aware of a single web server or proxy that
will ever return that status code unless it has been explicitly set up
by the publisher. 410 is never an accident.
Does Apple plan to support this HTTP status code in a future release of iTunes?
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Cheers,
-Mark
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