On 18 1 2005 at 6:13 pm -0500, Ross Wm. Rader wrote: >How is the polling mechanism that most aggregators and NNTP clients use >any different than the polling mechanism that most POP clients use?
Not that I know much about RSS, but isn't it a simple paramaterless HTTP request that serves up a whole pile of XML? In a POP transaction, there is a simple login process, and then no data is transferred if there is nothing new. My [admittedly thin] understanding is that you get the whole XML file whether or not much of its contents are relevant. Is that not true? -b -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
