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Aggregators and Referrer Spamming

Dave Winer I mean, with his newsRiver.root:

When the aggregator reads a feed it sets the referer for the request to http://www.newsriver.org/, a new site with a place-holder message for people who are unfamiliar with the aggregator. This address will appear in the referer logs for feeds that are read by users of this aggregator.

And again he spammed the referer, instead of adhering to the standard of putting the URL for the aggregator in the User-Agent header. No, not all hits from aggregators come from their pages, this is utter nonsense that he already perpetrated with the Radio Userland aggregator. And back then he showed himself to be forgetful when it was tried to explain it to him.

Why are programmers, especially in the field of web technologies and related topics, so incapable of looking at specifications? And simply adhering to what makes sense? The HTTP specification is not that complicated that one couldn't at least adhere to it rudimentarily ...

newsRiver - Aggregator for the OPML Editor

Dave Winer released newsRiver.root - his aggregator for the OPML Editor. And what happened again - as so often with him? The character set support is complete garbage. The thing can only correctly read feeds with iso-8859-1, utf-8 feeds get broken special characters. I would really be interested to know if he will ever understand the purpose of character sets like utf-8, or if he will ever give his software a proper basis to support more than just the system character set.

Apart from that, his OPML Editor still forces me to start MSIE - sorry, but that is really ridiculous. And of course there is no easy place to change that - presumably I can change it if I change a setting somewhere in the depths of the Frontier database, which will then possibly be overwritten by the next update ...

And after some searching I found it: in opml.root you have to look for system.verbs.builtins.webBrowser and change the two scripts getDefaultBrowser and launch. In getDefaultBrowser the default is set to MSIE for Carbon, which must be changed to sfri. And in launch you have to add sfri as a valid selection. And yes, the next update in the region will flatten that again ...

Another OPML server...

Phil Pearson does it again - this time he has reimplemented the community server for Dave Winer's OPML editor in Python (previously he had rebuilt the Radio Community Server, a project I was also briefly involved in). In any case, you can now also publish your OPML editor on your own Linux machine if you have Python and SCGI available there.

Who wants to work with PostgreSQL and Frontier, simply install the PostgreSQL Extension for Frontier. For Mac and Windows.

Ein erstes Python Beispiel in Frontier ist jetzt online. Sieht sehr interessant aus - ich würd mir wünschen das jetzt mal jemand Binaries baut, denn XCode habe ich ja - wegen 10.2 - noch nicht. Und ich würd damit doch so gerne rumspielen ...

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