Comments on: HTTP/1.1 From header and FOAF use in RSS aggregators http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/07/23/from-foaf-rss It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:05:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-hemorrhage hourly 1 By: Daniel Von Fange http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/07/23/from-foaf-rss#comment-961 Daniel Von Fange Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=448#comment-961 <p>Oh yeah. I would love to be able to visit the web sites of those that visit my site.</p> Oh yeah. I would love to be able to visit the web sites of those that visit my site.

]]> By: Luke http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/07/23/from-foaf-rss#comment-962 Luke Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=448#comment-962 <p>Why not for the From: header use a hash of the e-mail address? Preferably a secure one like SHA or MD5.</p> Why not for the From: header use a hash of the e-mail address? Preferably a secure one like SHA or MD5.

]]> By: l.m.orchard http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/07/23/from-foaf-rss#comment-963 l.m.orchard Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=448#comment-963 <p>Well, a hash would work if I already knew the person or had them in my FOAF network somewhere. But, I want to know about new and unexpected readers and follow them back to their blogs and feeds.</p> Well, a hash would work if I already knew the person or had them in my FOAF network somewhere. But, I want to know about new and unexpected readers and follow them back to their blogs and feeds.

]]> By: Sean Conner http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/07/23/from-foaf-rss#comment-964 Sean Conner Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=448#comment-964 <p>I would recommend that if you do this with the From: header, to put the URL in parenthesis, as according to RFC-2822 this is considered a comment and code using RFC-2822 parsing for this field (since it's intended to contain an email address) won't choke on it.</p> I would recommend that if you do this with the From: header, to put the URL in parenthesis, as according to RFC-2822 this is considered a comment and code using RFC-2822 parsing for this field (since it's intended to contain an email address) won't choke on it.

]]> By: Sean Conner http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/07/23/from-foaf-rss#comment-965 Sean Conner Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=448#comment-965 <p>I would recommend that if you do this with the From: header, to put the URL in parenthesis, as according to RFC-2822 this is considered a comment and code using RFC-2822 parsing for this field (since it's intended to contain an email address) won't choke on it.</p> I would recommend that if you do this with the From: header, to put the URL in parenthesis, as according to RFC-2822 this is considered a comment and code using RFC-2822 parsing for this field (since it's intended to contain an email address) won't choke on it.

]]> By: Sean Conner http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/07/23/from-foaf-rss#comment-966 Sean Conner Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=448#comment-966 <p>Sorry about the double post there; the feedback on posting isn't clear that it was actually posted.</p> <p>Also, it is instructive to read through the specs from time to time. A friend is writing a webserver by following RFC-2616 and it's not always exactly clear what needs to be done; there have been times when we've had discussions over what this or that means in the spec (and occasionally we cheat by looking at Apache “under the hood” (so to speak—bet you didn't know you could include comments in header fields, eh?)</p> Sorry about the double post there; the feedback on posting isn't clear that it was actually posted.

Also, it is instructive to read through the specs from time to time. A friend is writing a webserver by following RFC-2616 and it's not always exactly clear what needs to be done; there have been times when we've had discussions over what this or that means in the spec (and occasionally we cheat by looking at Apache “under the hood” (so to speak—bet you didn't know you could include comments in header fields, eh?)

]]> By: Morten Frederiksen http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/07/23/from-foaf-rss#comment-967 Morten Frederiksen Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=448#comment-967 <p>Please note that pointing to a FoaF file may not be enough to identify a specific person - usually more than one person is described in each file.</p> Please note that pointing to a FoaF file may not be enough to identify a specific person - usually more than one person is described in each file.

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