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

[Andrew T. <ajt...@hi...>]

I think we also need to start a database of violators of bad feed production. :)

Do the feeds all validate? If so, seems like a failure in the standard
that doesn't specify what should be the content link vs. feed link vs.
guid.

Thanks Kevin,
Andrew

On 7/21/06, Kevin <ke...@dr...> wrote:
>
> > On 7/20/06, Kevin <ke...@dr...> wrote:
> >>
> >> current logic to get the value for link.  I know it needs to be changed
> >> 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 hash
> for the item.(md5 or sha1)  This will separate the link and uniqueness
> concerns and make everyone happy.
>
> --
> Kevin
>
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