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CPAN.io
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RSS feeds #5

Open book opened 10 years ago

book commented 10 years ago

At the moment, the only section of cpan.io that is likely to meaningfully change is the "pulse", as I'm hoping for weekly updates. People will be annoyed if the RSS keeps telling them about changes in the boards.

The issue with RSS feeds is that I suspect the clients do a HTTP request using the If-Modified-Since header, which will lead to problems, since the site is re-generated hourly and the RSS feed would therefore be regenerated too, even if it wasn't modified. One possibility would be that Wallflower use the Last-Modified header (if provided) from the HTTP response to set the file date.

book commented 6 years ago

Nowadays, wallflower properly handles Last-Modified if the underlying application supports it. See also #32 (hourly regeneration would not update those pages).