Opened 17 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
#3513 closed enhancement (fixed)
RSS feeds need updateFrequency to limit scans by Outlook
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Milestone: | 2.7 | Priority: | low |
Severity: | trivial | Version: | 2.0 |
Component: | Template | Keywords: | has-patch dev-feedback needs-testing |
Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
I discovered a few visitors were pulling down the RSS feeds thousands of times each day without realizing it. This turned out to be because they are using the new Office 12/2007 update with IE7 and that makes it pull down the entire feed every time they check mail, sometimes every 10 minutes or less (thanks Microsoft!)
This problem is about to become widespread when many more people upgrade.
RSS feed needs this namespace added
xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
then specify an hourly frequency maximum check time:
<sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency>
Comments Feed needs the addition as well, perhaps atom feeds too.
Attachments (1)
Change History (19)
#7
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16 years ago
Related discussion:
http://weblog.philringnalda.com/2002/10/19/joels-rss-problem
#10
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16 years ago
- Keywords dev-feedback added
- Owner rob1n deleted
- Status changed from assigned to new
#13
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15 years ago
- Milestone changed from 2.9 to 2.6.1
I seriously cannot believe it's taken TWO YEARS to include this trivial fix for a fairly common issue given the sheer number of Outlook users. Is it just being missed?
#14
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15 years ago
- Milestone changed from 2.6.1 to 2.7
- Priority changed from normal to low
- Severity changed from normal to trivial
Gots to show tickets some love for them to get in. Does seem pretty easy. Moving to trunk.
#15
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15 years ago
- Owner set to westi
- Status changed from new to assigned
The patch looks good to me for trunk.
I think we may want to do something cleverer than setting it to every hour though.
Maybe we can easily pre-compute something on the post publish hook which says how often a site is updated e.g. posts per month / hours in month
Or maybe we can expose a single ui option?
I'll get the patch in but leave this open for further discussion.
+1
This would really help reduce the load due to some stupid feed readers without resorting to feedburner, which is what a lot of people have done to deal with it.