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Re: Atom Info Proposal


On Dec 6, 2003, at 10:05 AM, Dare Obasanjo wrote:

Are you suggesting that every time I click on a link
to an ATOM feed instead of performing an HTTP GET and
perhaps seeing some XML or some styled HTML such as
Jason Shellen suggests it should invoke my aggregator
and ask if I want to subscribe to the feed?

Er, why not? Every time I click on a link to a PDF doc I get a PDF reader. Every time I click on a .mov file I get Quicktime. Seems like a sensible default behavior.

Thus making it impossible to actually use HTTP with
ATOM?

You're being silly. What protocol do you think the aggregator is using?

Or are you guys suggesting that we come up with a new
MIME type that just means subscribe while ATOM has a
seperate MIME type for HTTP GETs?

Everyone's acknowledged, I think, that you wouldn't be able to use the mime-type option to support subscription *unless* a feed carried its own URI around inside, which as several have pointed out is maybe not a bad idea anyhow.

I repeat, who's putting up their hand to volunteer to write the RFC and register the URI scheme? -Tim