[typo] Feeds

[Scott Laird]

On Dec 7, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Peter Donald wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 12/8/05, Trejkaz <trejkaz at trypticon.org> wrote:
>>>> When using an aggregator, everytime I post a new article, all the
>>>> articles in my feed appear to be new, although they're not.
>>>>
>>>> This is pretty annoying since one reader says he's getiting all my
>>>> posts 2 or 3 times.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas? Anyone else noticed this?
>>>>
>>>> (I'm running 2.6.0 - stable)
>>>
>>> Which feed reader are they using?
>>
>> I see this in Akregator and Thunderbird also.  Thunderbird has a  
>> long-standing
>> bug with doing this to many sites so I didn't think much of it,  
>> but I admit
>> that it's odd to see it happen in Akregator.
>
> I get his on occasion due to the way that the feeds generate the urls
> for each entry. Sometimes they will generate using the ip address and
> sometimes with the host name so a url for a feed may alternate between
>
> <guid>http://www.realityforge.org/articles/2005/12/02/validations- 
> for-non-activerecord-model-objects</guid>
>
> and
>
>
> <guid>http://131.172.40.169/articles/2005/12/02/validations-for-non- 
> activerecord-model-objects</guid>
>
> I have been meaning to go in and fix that by supplying host but
> haven't got around to it ;) Not sure if that helps.

Ahh.  Interesting.

The trunk generates guids and stores them in the DB, so this isn't a  
problem with the current code.  On the other hand, if you're using  
2.6.x or earlier, and you have people hitting your website through  
several different URLs, then the cache *will* make the feed GUIDs  
move around.  Yuck.

Yet another reason to get a new release out the door soon.


Scott