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Tuesday 2 May 2006

More details from the RSS Team blog on how the Vista RSS Platform's download engine addresses the issue of load on a feed server, traffic spikes, and bandwidth consumption:
  • Default download interval is 24 hours.
  • Minimum download interval is 15 minutes.
  • Supports RSS 2.0 ttl tag.
  • Supports Syndication extension for RSS 1.0 and Atom feeds.
  • Interval salting to randomly stagger time of downloads.
  • Progressive error backoff interval.
  • Conditional GETs.
  • Delta encoding.
  • gzip encoding.
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