http://inkblots.markwoodman.com/2006/08/31/rss-time-to-live-ttl/ Completely Messing the Point - Notes on cool tech, including RSS and Atom. May contain humor. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:57:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://inkblots.markwoodman.com/2006/08/31/rss-time-to-live-ttl/#comment-267 Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:15:47 +0000 http://inkblots.markwoodman.com/2006/08/31/rss-time-to-live-ttl/#comment-267 Randy: properly supporting If-Modified-Since and Cache-Control headers should generally have the same effect. The best thing is, most bloggers don't usually have to do anything to support 'em. Randy: properly supporting If-Modified-Since and Cache-Control headers should generally have the same effect. The best thing is, most bloggers don’t usually have to do anything to support ‘em.

]]> http://inkblots.markwoodman.com/2006/08/31/rss-time-to-live-ttl/#comment-265 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:10:54 +0000 http://inkblots.markwoodman.com/2006/08/31/rss-time-to-live-ttl/#comment-265 Randy and I continue the conversation here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-public/message/882 Randy and I continue the conversation here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-public/message/882

]]> http://inkblots.markwoodman.com/2006/08/31/rss-time-to-live-ttl/#comment-264 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:08:48 +0000 http://inkblots.markwoodman.com/2006/08/31/rss-time-to-live-ttl/#comment-264 Let me stress that TTL does work, but only with half the clients. But it does work. So, if you want your RSS to be more real-time, you can set the TTL to 5 minutes and for many clients, you'll be the freshess feed. If you are getting killed with bandwidth, you can set the TTL to 24 hours and this will reduce bandwidth, just not as much as it should. It's not perfect. But it does work. Let me stress that TTL does work, but only with half the clients. But it does work. So, if you want your RSS to be more real-time, you can set the TTL to 5 minutes and for many clients, you’ll be the freshess feed. If you are getting killed with bandwidth, you can set the TTL to 24 hours and this will reduce bandwidth, just not as much as it should. It’s not perfect. But it does work.

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