RSS quick query
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green_amberI know I asked this before but could someone remind me: if you are an on line creator (eg the P V P people or Boing Boing say) can you STOP your work being syndicated by RSS using particular code? if so, how? does it have any drawbacks? Thanks!!! Could you allow some people to RSS it and not others? Would that require password protection effectively?
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Date: 2006-01-03 02:45 pm (UTC)If you're running RSS and want to use it to only distribute to specific folk you can just use standard HTTP authentication tools (after all, RSS is just XML over HTTP).
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Date: 2006-01-03 02:53 pm (UTC)So there's no code you can insert a bit like the robots.txt that stops people making an RSS feed out of your site? can you build your site not in XML just in HTTP?
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Date: 2006-01-03 02:57 pm (UTC)The thing is, once you have content in an open format like HTML, anyone can do anything with it. You'd need to put your site content in FLash or similar.
One option would be to build you site as a content negotiated CMS and just block out the IP addresses or HTTP User Agents of scraping tools. That would work...
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Date: 2006-01-03 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-03 03:04 pm (UTC)The problem is that the bad guys have access to the same technologies as you do. It's like dealing ith spam...
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Date: 2006-01-03 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-03 03:00 pm (UTC)HTTP is a protocol not a markup language -- I assume you meant HTML. XML or HTML makes no difference, anything that is human-readable is also machine readable unless you hide it behind something that needs human-level pattern-matching skills like a CAPTCHA image.
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Date: 2006-01-03 03:38 pm (UTC)