280699 - support Universal Subscription Mechanism

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[Will Budreau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/usm.html

" Universal Subscription Mechanism is a really simple way of allowing RSS
readers to subscribe to RSS feeds. Many blogs and Websites with RSS feeds
present an orange XML or RSS button, Atom button or text anchor link that points
to the RSS feed. When the user clicks on the button, nothing substantial
happens. This mechanism replaces that click with a subscription notification to
the users default RSS handler.

The mechanism defines two requirements of the RSS feed publisher; to return the
application/rss+xml Content-Type in the HTTP headers and to place one new Atom
Link Construct element in the RSS channel. The mechanism then allows RSS readers
to create a simple shell extension to initiate the RSS feed subscription using a
small native application."

Other supporting apps:
http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/whatisthis.html#whatisusm

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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