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Re: Photocasting

Mark Pilgrim wrote: 
- What is the format of the link that you can send to other people to
get them to subscribe to your photocasting feed?  Has Apple invented
yet another URL scheme like "pcast://"?


From the above-linked discussions, I gather that the link is just an
http:// link to the RSS feed, but evidence suggests that Apple may be
doing some sort of user-agent sniffing.  Some people get the feed,
while other people claim to get an HTML page explaining that their
client is unsupported.  (I can't currently reproduce this error
message, so things may have already changed on the server side, or I
may be misunderstanding the initial reports.)

Two URLs: you apparently send http://photocast.mac.com/mrakes/iPhoto/photocast_test/index.rss as a test: if your friends are using an Apple-approved reader then that URL works directly, but if not, and they open it in an unapproved browser, then it tests a second thing, whether or not they will read an entire error message closely enough to spot the fact that it includes a different URL, http://web.mac.com/mrakes/iPhoto/photocast_test/index.rss which doesn't care about your user-agent string.

I'd be interested in knowing whether the feed returned by photocast.mac.com is the same as the one returned by web.mac.com, but not interested enough to, you know, actually tell wget to use a Safari UA string.

Phil Ringnalda
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