Re: accept and Atom entry MIME type

[Nikunj Mehta <nikunj.mehta@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Let me take issue with that statement.

I agree that it is not trivial to define a standard AtomPub client,  
but I disagree that there are no standard AtomPub clients. We have  
written synchronizing proxy cache, called AtomDB [1], that works with  
standard and/or extended AtomPub servers. To take a few examples, we  
work with both blogging servers as well as with GData servers equally  
well.

Nikunj Mehta
http://o-micron.blogspot.com

[1] http://o-micron.blogspot.com/2008/06/mobile-databases-or-write-through-web.html

On May 18, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Brian Smith wrote:

> In any case, I don't think there are any "standard AtomPub clients."  
> Because
> an AtomPub server is allowed to do anything it wants in response to a
> request, there's no way to write a useful AtomPub client without  
> making many
> assumptions about the server's behavior. That is why there's no real
> interoperability in AtomPub.