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[_] RSS bedtime reading

Tim Beadle tim.beadle at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 11:57:33 GMT 2008

On 15/02/2008, Dan Fairs <dan.fairs at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been thinking of moving to FeedBurner for my feeds. Thing is, I
>  currently serve up my RSS myself.
>
>  In peoples' experience, do RSS readers respect HTTP redirects? That
>  is, could I send a 'Moved Permanently' to readers currently pointing
>  at my RSS feed, and expect them to respect it?

IIRC you have to hold your nose and use a 302 (Moved Temporarily),
even though it's not temporary, as more RSS readers support 302 than
301.

See this blog post for more detail:
http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2005/06/ciao_feedburner.php

Tim