New Mobileread RSS feeds - Pick and mix!

[Alexander Turcic]

After we did some serious optimizations to our newsfeed system, we now decided to offer our readers a choice of separate RSS feeds for each section of the site.

In other words, you can now build up your own personalized Mobileread headlines list by subscribing your aggregator to the combination of feeds that suits you best.

Instructions how to use RSS are provided in the link below.

[Link to our RSS feeds]

Comments are as always welcomed!

[Zire]

You just do more and more for us Alex. Thanks so much!

[Alexander Turcic]

Thank you Zire71man!

I hope some people will appreciate the new feeds

[Alexander Turcic]

Update 01/06/05: Fixed the RSS 2.0 feeds, which erroneously pointed to the RSS 0.92 feeds.

[Alexander Turcic]

I received two messages asking what exactly I mean by "optimizing" RSS feeds. To give you a more technical answer, this is how our feeds work:
- The feed URL shouldn't redirect
- If clients ask for compression, then provide it
- Don't disable caching with Cache-Control
- Use an Expires header to tell clients how often to poll
- Last-Modified headers tell clients how often content is updated
- Provide an ETag
- Provide Last-Modified or ETag, so clients can make conditional requests
- Feed size should be less than 64 KB
- Conditional requests, using Last-Modified and ETag, save bandwidth and reduce server load
- If-Modified-Since alone should be honored
- If-None-Match alone should be honored