[Users] Conditional requests for RSSyl

[Paul]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:34:36 +0300
Ivan Krylov via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote: 

> The author explained that too many "libfeed 0.1" clients requested the
> feed too frequently in the past, enough to earn a permanent ban. Now
> that I double-checked the feed, I'm not seeing the RSS feed return
> ETag: or Last-Modified: headers, so conditional requests wouldn't have
> helped here anyway, and neither will the User-Agent change. With a
> <ttl> value of only 30, it's not obvious how a client is expected to
> choose the right refresh period.

That just indicates that, sooner or later, the new User-Agent string will get
blocked in the same way. I don't think we should be chasing this at all.

with regards

Paul