On Aug 22, 2005, at 7:26 AM, Joe Gregorio wrote:
Essentially, LiveJournal is making this data available to anybody who
wishes to access it, without any need to register or to invent a
unique API.
Ahh, I had thought this was a more dedicated ping traffic stream. The
never ending Atom document makes much more sense now.
It's got another advantage. You connect and ask for the feed. You get
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";>
....... goes on forever ........
and none of the entry documents need to redeclare the Atom namespace,
which saves quite a few bytes after the first hundred thousand or so
entries. -Tim
