Tim Bray wrote: > > 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
Any value in using this to exercise the PaceBatch? If it dealt with the use-case in terms of bulk transfer that would make it more compelling imo. cheers Bill
