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Re: blogs.msdn.com: RSS consumes too much bandwidth


On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 08:20:52 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@xxxxxxx> wrote:

  * Atom clients or the HTTP servers they access do not make proper use
    of the existing HTTP facilities to reduce bandwidth like e.g.,

      * multi-user caches
      * local caches along with conditional requests
      * HTTP level compression

I think this is the problem in too many cases. From what I can understand, Randy Charles Morin has investigated into this, and apparently, there is lot that can be done with Microsoft's RSS feeds to improve bandwidth waste:

<url: http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20040908194002>

Maybe the Atom protocol specification should have a section regarding optimalization, both server- and client-side?

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