[Magpierss-general] Cache retention / Conditional GET / Return Cached on Failure

[CJ K. <ma...@ap...>]

'ello everyone.

First off, MagpieRSS is awesome.  Thanks bunches to anyone who's worked
on it.

I've got a couple of questions about it:

1) Is there any way to specify varying levels of cache retention for
   feeds apart from setting MAGPIE_CACHE_AGE inbetween calls to
   fetch_rss?  It'd be nice to perhaps be able to pass in the max
   age into the fetch_rss call instead of doing it in two steps.
   Well, actually, now that I look at the source it seems that there
   really isn't.  I could write up a quick patch for it to support
   doing so; would such a thing be likely to be accepted?

2) I've seen some mentions of MAGPIE_CONDITIONAL_GET_ON, as well as
   seeing that var in a few bits of example code around the net, but
   I don't actually see any use of that var in the code...  Does this
   mean that Conditional GETs are now on all the time by default?

3) I had noticed a thread from not too long ago about having MagpieRSS
   return a cached version of a feed if the server's unreachable, etc,
   and it was mentioned that the current release should have this enabled
   already, but I don't see that behavior with 0.71; I'll occasionally
   have some of my feeds time out or become unreachable and I'll get
   the usual warnings instead of a cached version.  Is there something
   I need to do to enable this behavior?

I think there may have been more, but that's all I can think of now.

Regardless, thanks for the great product!

-CJ

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