How RSS works
Okay, so I feel stupid asking... but let me see if I understand this right:
An RSS is a well-formed XML file that contains some essential tidbits of information (channel, link, description, title, items). As the host of an RSS feed, you promise to keep this XML file up, and to occasionally update the contents of the file.
Some newsreader out there gets updates from your RSS feed. How often (and when) does their newsreader check for an update? Afterall, if you had 100,000 readers and they all checked your page continuously, you'd have a DoS on your hands, right?
And when you want the RSS to update automatically, you need to write some php script to generate it dynamically... So, there's no automatic update if you don't have php access to your web-server?
Is that about how it works? (Sounds a bit intimidating) =\
An RSS is a well-formed XML file that contains some essential tidbits of information (channel, link, description, title, items). As the host of an RSS feed, you promise to keep this XML file up, and to occasionally update the contents of the file.
Some newsreader out there gets updates from your RSS feed. How often (and when) does their newsreader check for an update? Afterall, if you had 100,000 readers and they all checked your page continuously, you'd have a DoS on your hands, right?
And when you want the RSS to update automatically, you need to write some php script to generate it dynamically... So, there's no automatic update if you don't have php access to your web-server?
Is that about how it works? (Sounds a bit intimidating) =\
