[Users] Conditional requests for RSSyl

[wwp]

Hello Paul, Ivan,


On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:07:09 -0000 Paul <paul at claws-mail.org> wrote:

> 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.

To me, the user-agent should be an option in the RSSyl preferences,
and even more in feeds' properties to sort out this situation.


Regards,

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