Simon Willison: How to track an RSS feed

http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/09/01/track

Clever: Instead of the feed at the published URL, serve up a 301 redirect to the real feed tagged with a generated unique ID. The incoming aggregator should switch to the new ID-tagged URL and happily continue on using it.

Saved on Sep 01, 2004

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