Re: [Fofredux-devel] Links, FeedBurner and You

[Kevin <ke...@dr...>]

> On 7/20/06, Kevin <ke...@dr...> wrote:
>>
>> current logic to get the value for link.  I know it needs to be change=
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>> to
>> make it work better, but I don't know how.
>
> Thanks for showing the root of the issue. I would think the first step
> would be to re-order the priority of how a link is obtained. First if
> there is a "link", use that, then the enclosure url perhaps, and
> finally the GUID.
>
> I agree that I didn't really realize the possible problems either
> before. GUID was typically URL since that has to be unique. HOwever,
> the GUID doesn't *need* to be the URL.

Right,  I'm the one that changed the link resolution order to favor GUID
tag over the LINK tag.  There was a feed where the link tag was constant
for all items, but the guid was a unique URL.

I plan on adding an indexed column to the item table to hold a unique has=
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for the item.(md5 or sha1)  This will separate the link and uniqueness
concerns and make everyone happy.

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Kevin