Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: GNU Planet and Savannah

[Noah Slater]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:18:26PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> That's a lead, but this still makes the same number of requests...

Sure, but only a HTTP header exchange. Nowhere near the same bandwidth.

> Maybe this is better done at the HTTP level but I'm in favour of a
> less abusive way to poll the news.

I guess, HTTP caching was designed exactly for this type of thing though.

... it also works pretty well!

> It's be interesting to know if planetplanet supports those headers,
> though, just in case :)

It should do, if not, I would bet money that Planet Venus does:

  http://www.intertwingly.net/code/venus/

Best,

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Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater