Windows RSS Platform Download Engine

re: Windows RSS Platform Download Engine

Christian — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 17:10:57 GMT

Are there ways for users to remove this limitations?

e.g. I don't want the 410 gone behaviour. Will IE7 notify me of this?

Is there a button that does somthing like check ALL feeds NOW no matter what and don't throttle but get everything as fast as possbile?

re: Windows RSS Platform Download Engine

Walter [MSFT] — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:56:50 GMT

Christian, the user can not control the automatic 410 Gone behavior. The user can set the feed's update interval back to the desired frequency, though during the next download it will be set to never again b/c it will receive another 410 Gone.

There is no "check all feeds now" button that downloads all feeds in a tight loop. A script that uses the RSS Platform API to do that can be written. I'd be curious to know in which scenarios would you like to have such a button?

re: Windows RSS Platform Download Engine

Gert Van Waelvelde — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 20:35:03 GMT

I think a "check all feeds now" button would be very useful.
When I turn on my computer I like to get all the latest news and latest blog posts immediately, rather than having to wait until the feeds are synchronized automatically.

Also, when I'm about to turn my computer off, I like to know whether there are any new news items or blog posts that I should read urgently.
A "check all feeds now" button would make this possible.

re: Windows RSS Platform Download Engine

M. David Peterson — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 04:23:38 GMT

very nice! > http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/04/keep_the_good_things_rolling_m.html

re: Windows RSS Platform Download Engine

Bob Wyman — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 06:27:49 GMT

Thank you very much for supporting RFC3229+feed. You will not regret it. Those of us who have been using this method have already discovered that it can reduce the average amount of downloaded data to less than 10% of what would otherwise be expected.

bob wyman
CTO, PubSub.com

re: Windows RSS Platform Download Engine

Edward — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:06:01 GMT

RE Enclosures: see my C9 Post http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=178502 I'd really like to be able to control where the enclosures are stored. Also Monday's video download failed, it ended up saving a 404 error page saved as a wmv file. I deleted the failed file, but how do I make the RSS Platform attempt to download it again? It seems to think it has already done it, and I can't see any way to make it recheck. So far I'm finding the RSS platform pretty good. My trivial API test program has become my primary feed reader on Windows. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=176435