Matthew Rosewarne on 27 Nov 2007 02:43:19 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] RSS feed server


On Monday 26 November 2007, Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote:
> Sure. If you aren't worried about keeping a history of all posts from
> this point on, a simple solution would be to download each feed and
> serve it from your own webserver.
(snip)
> My django solution, involves a similar thing, but it adds each feed
> item to a database table and the list of feeds is also in the
> database. Feeds can be managed from the admin interface provided by
> django and they are assembled on each request for them.

I may be misunderstanding that, but I was thinking of a cache that archives 
the *entire* feed, not just the last n entries.
Say the site has a feed with the latest 10 entries in it.  The cache pulls 
down all 10.  Some time later, the feed is checked again.  The cache should 
not replace the 10 existing entries with the 10 new entries, but instead add 
any new entries to the existing ones.  That way, another device can pull, 
say, the last 100 (or even 1000) entries from the cache.

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