Re: Loading an RSS (feed://) URL
Re: Loading an RSS (feed://) URL
- Subject: Re: Loading an RSS (feed://) URL
- From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:37:28 -0500
On Jun 20, 2005, at 11:26 PM, Andy Lee wrote:
On Jun 20, 2005, at 11:52 PM, Ondra Cada wrote:
Have you tried just using "http" in place of "feed"? I *do not
know*, but kind of feel the protocol is HTTP anyway, and the
"feed" thing is more a GUI thing than anything other...
I know even less, but that won't stop me from speculating...
I believe an RSS feed is basically just another file on the Web
server, which can be served up via HTTP just like any other. The
"feed://" part, then, would serve basically as a hint to the
application about how to handle the data it receives.
That would be exactly correct.
The underlying problem is that there really isn't a way to associate
a particular URL with a particular application without grabbing the
data from the URL and praying for an accurate mime-type.
So, the system dispatches URLs via the 'protocol' prefix. feed: is
synonymous with http:, but dispatches to a potentially different set
of applications than regular http:/https: URLs.
For example, you can do...
x-man-page://ls
... to cause the man page for 'ls' to open in a new terminal window.
b.bum
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