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September 2004

Unpolluted - Tests for RSS Scalability (req. Python) [via]



milov wrote on 2004/09/15:
Results for my own rss feed:

URL: http://milov.nl/rss.xml
[pass] The URL shouldn't redirect
[pass] If clients ask for compression, then provide it
[pass] Don't disable caching with Cache-Control
[pass] Supply a Date header, to indicate the server time
[pass] The server clock should be accurate (< 10 minutes difference)
[FAIL] Use an Expires header to tell clients how often to poll
[ ] Expiry must be in the future
[pass] Last-Modified headers tell clients how often content is updated
[pass] The Last-Modified date must be in the past
[good] Provide an ETag
[pass] Provide Last-Modified or ETag, so clients can make conditional requests
[good] Feed size should be less than 64 KiB
[pass] Conditional requests, using Last-Modified and ETag, save bandwidth and reduce server load
[good] If-Modified-Since alone should be honoured
[good] If-None-Match alone should be honoured