Kill the RSS ?

  • Mark (podz)

    (@podz)


    22 years ago

    Is there a way of actually disabling the RSS feed completely ?
    I will be starting another weblog, but it will have much longer articles in it, and the frequency of publishing it to it will be lower – maybe only 2 articles / month.
    If someone subcribes the feed as it is to something like Bloglines, or a desktop newsreader, they will be pulling in the same data repeatedly for no benefit to them, yet at a bandwidth cost to me.
    So I’d like to kill it off – not just hide / disguise the link.
    I know that the risk of repeat visitors just to see if there is a new post will also affect b/w, but again, I plan to have a date set for the next article which will go against that. Also, that risk depends on someone taking the time to click a link. Once someone has subbed your blog to a service, it goes automatically.
    (and on a side note, has anyone seen anything about discovering who *is* taking your feed ? and how often ? Server logs tell you so much, but not always everything. I search on this regularly, but have yet to find anything.)

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  • Anonymous

    22 years ago

    Most readers support conditional GET, so should get a 304 Not Modified message instead of pulling the whole feed. It’d still use some bandwidth, but not nearly as much.

    thomasmaas

    (@thomasmaas)

    22 years ago

    on the side note:
    1) redirect links in feed
    If you only put the intro of your articles in your feeds you could put different links that redirect to the actual aricle. By logging this redirect you can measure howmany people looked up the article in a browser coming from a feed. example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/ukfs_news/front_page/rss091.xml
    1) subscription feed (“private rss”)
    i.e. with http auth. for compatibility see http://labs.silverorange.com/archives/2003/july/privaterss

    carthik

    (@carthik)

    22 years ago

    podz, if you want to remove them, then delete the files wp-rss2.php etc, and they will not be able to get to the feeds. I am not sure this is what you want though.

    sead

    (@sead)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    Thank you so much.Just ran a search.I definately AM looking for a way to kill RSS feeds! I wasn’t sure whether deleting those files would break anything else.

    Much appreciated.

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