Comments on: Another update http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2004/06/another-update/ Sci-fi, comics, humor, photos...it's all fair game. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:01:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Kelson http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2004/06/another-update/#comment-353 Kelson Fri, 02 Jul 2004 19:32:56 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2004/06/25/another-update/#comment-353 OK, I found and fixed one <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/133">bug in RSS feeds</a> a few days ago, which exposed another <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/137">bug in the comments feed</a>. I was going to check the second one out this weekend, but someone beat me to it. I took 5 minutes to add the suggested fix, and if it works, this comment will show up in my newsreader! (In case you're wondering, but not curious enough to follow the links: the first bug was that RSS & Atom feeds would check to see if they had changed, and issue a "304 Not Modified" response, but would then send the whole file anyway, defeating the whole purpose. I fixed that with a one-line change, then submitted a bug report (with the fix). Yesterday I noticed that someone had posted a comment, but it hadn't shown up on the newsreader. It turns out that the comments feed was only checking to see if there were new <em>posts</em>, so if there was a new comment, but no new post, it would respond that there wasn't anything new!) OK, I found and fixed one bug in RSS feeds a few days ago, which exposed another bug in the comments feed. I was going to check the second one out this weekend, but someone beat me to it. I took 5 minutes to add the suggested fix, and if it works, this comment will show up in my newsreader!

(In case you’re wondering, but not curious enough to follow the links: the first bug was that RSS & Atom feeds would check to see if they had changed, and issue a “304 Not Modified” response, but would then send the whole file anyway, defeating the whole purpose. I fixed that with a one-line change, then submitted a bug report (with the fix). Yesterday I noticed that someone had posted a comment, but it hadn’t shown up on the newsreader. It turns out that the comments feed was only checking to see if there were new posts, so if there was a new comment, but no new post, it would respond that there wasn’t anything new!)

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