So even the well intentioned feed readers misbehave sometimes. I guess there is a spec but no proper test suite ever emerged?
On the flip side should RSS become a thing again thus incentivizing bad actors what recourse is there? Or just from poorly written ones?
Seems to be a missing piece.
With torrenting there is either a tracker enforcing ratio or gossip between clients - so bad actors are quickly flushed out of the system. Maybe that's a fertile place to draw inspiration from. I'm not sure.
> Bug: If-Modified-Since is only really valid if you were served it as a Last-Modified value previously. Readers are inventing values, or are sourcing them from the wrong layer of the stack. Don't do this.
This sounds more like a server bug. The RFC mention this behavior, but with the caveat that it doesn't work as well.
On the flip side should RSS become a thing again thus incentivizing bad actors what recourse is there? Or just from poorly written ones?
Seems to be a missing piece.
With torrenting there is either a tracker enforcing ratio or gossip between clients - so bad actors are quickly flushed out of the system. Maybe that's a fertile place to draw inspiration from. I'm not sure.