Ticket 5: Follow feed URL redirects
Feeds sometimes move and the old feed redirects to the new one. If the redirection is a permanent one (HTTP status code 301), Temboz should save the new URL as the XML URL for the feed.
Often when this happens, the permalinks/guids in the feed change as well (even though they shouldn't), leading to duplicate posts. An optimization would be to filter out items with duplicate titles after the feed has changed locations.
We should probably create a pseudo-article as a service notification so the user is aware something changed with the feed, along with a list of duplicate items suppressed.
There is a potential privacy issue with this: a feed owner might redirect the user to a feed URL with some tracking code embedded in it for tracking purposes. Putting the URLs in the feed URL change service notification would allow the user to be aware of this if it happens.
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2005-Jul-14 09:18 |
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2005-Sep-11 18:06 |
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3 |
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majid |
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majid |