Comments on: RSS: The GUID Problem http://techbrew.net/articles/200709/rss-the-guid-problem/ Informative geekery on software and technology Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:05:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Woodman http://techbrew.net/articles/200709/rss-the-guid-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-4634 Mark Woodman Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:45:25 +0000 http://techbrew.net/articles/200709/rss-the-guid-problem/#comment-4634 James, *headsmack* I completely forgot about your post on this topic. Forgive me, it has been a year. :) Thanks for chiming in. -M James,

*headsmack* I completely forgot about your post on this topic. Forgive me, it has been a year. :) Thanks for chiming in.

-M

]]> By: James Holderness http://techbrew.net/articles/200709/rss-the-guid-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-4633 James Holderness Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:42:26 +0000 http://techbrew.net/articles/200709/rss-the-guid-problem/#comment-4633 For details on how other RSS aggregators deal with duplicates (they all handle the problem differently), check out this post: http://www.xn--8ws00zhy3a.com/blog/2006/08/rss-dup-detection (Encoding weidness in above link fixed by Mark) For details on how other RSS aggregators deal with duplicates (they all handle the problem differently), check out this post:

http://www.xn--8ws00zhy3a.com/blog/2006/08/rss-dup-detection

(Encoding weidness in above link fixed by Mark)

]]> By: Andy Brudtkuhl http://techbrew.net/articles/200709/rss-the-guid-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-4617 Andy Brudtkuhl Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:52:53 +0000 http://techbrew.net/articles/200709/rss-the-guid-problem/#comment-4617 If only standards used standards! In analyzing the feeds I am aggregating I\'d say 1% of them use the GUID feature - which sucks. When initially building my engine I started with the GUID only to end disappointed that it was never used. Then I thought the link should do the trick, which it does on 85% of the feeds I aggregate but this is not enough. And now, yes, I have to kludge stuff together which I still don\'t believe is 100% reliable but it\'s a lot better than duplicated content. I\'m very interested to know how other RSS developers have gotten around this lovely non-standard gotcha in what is supposed to be standardized technology. If only standards used standards!

In analyzing the feeds I am aggregating I\’d say 1% of them use the GUID feature – which sucks. When initially building my engine I started with the GUID only to end disappointed that it was never used. Then I thought the link should do the trick, which it does on 85% of the feeds I aggregate but this is not enough.

And now, yes, I have to kludge stuff together which I still don\’t believe is 100% reliable but it\’s a lot better than duplicated content.

I\’m very interested to know how other RSS developers have gotten around this lovely non-standard gotcha in what is supposed to be standardized technology.

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