Bandwidth consumtion and syndication feeds

[Dare Obasanjo <kpako@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/16/29OPconnection_1.html?
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source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/16/
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> 29OPconnection_1.html
> 
> I'm not sure this is *really* a problem, in that we
> might decide that  
> existing HTTP caching & traffic management
> techniques will suffice for  
> Atom.  But we should be conscious of it. -Tim

Testing their feed with
http://www.rexswain.com/cgi-bin/httpview.cgi I see
that Infoworld neither supports GZip encoding nor HTTP
conditional GET. No wonder their bandwidth usage is so
high. Using both techniques should reduce their
bandwidth usage by at *least* a factor of 10. 

Almost every time I see someone complain about how RSS
wastes bandwidth, I check their RSS feed and find they
aren't using basic HTTP techniques for saving
bandwidth which are supported by ALL the major RSS
aggregators. Until we find that existing solutions are
inadequate it seems like premature optimization to
start talking about even more sophisticated bandwidth
management techniques specific to syndication feeds. 

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