Good RSS Readers

Good RSS readers:

1. Don’t poll frequently
2. Send If-Modified-Since header
3. Send ETag header
4. Don’t send useless cookies
5. Send informative User-Agent header
6. Send Accept-Encoding: gzip header
7. Don’t send useless referrer information
8. Respect the HTTP codes

Reference:

• So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors
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