On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:12:56PM +0000, dom wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:26:49PM +0000, Simon Wistow
wrote:
> > Thirdly, Feedvalidator also says (perhaps
spuriously) that the HTTP
> > header should have the character encoding in it.
There appears to be no
> > way to turn this off in CGI.pm. Again, suggestions
welcome although I'm
> > not too worried about this one.
>
> The way to fix this is to serve the RSS feed with a
type of
> 'application/rss+xml' type ('application/atom+xml' for
Atom). CGI.pm
> will only set the charset if the media type is text/*.
One more thing... For feeds, it's generally a better idea
to write to a
file and then just let Apache serve the file. This is
because Apache
knows how to do stuff like If-Modified-Since, ETags, gzip
encoding and
the rest, which can bring large bandwidth savings.
Otherwise you have
to implement it all yourself, which is boring and wasteful.
-Dom
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