Re: Super-simple feed format (was Re: Withdrawn entries)

[Ken MacLeod <ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Jenson <sjenson@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed Oct 29 07:06:36 PST 2003, Seairth Jacobs <seairth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What if the <feed> format were reduced to a list of URIs pointing
> > to <entry> resources.

> > 1) If a persistent connection is used, the only bandwidth increase
> > is the HTTP headers in subsequent GETs of the individual entries.
> 
> Except that with the SOAP bindings I would have to reauthenticate for
> every entry.

How would that be different than re-authenticating with HTTP if
persistent connections weren't used either?  Wouldn't that all be
wrapped in a request function or SOAP library?

  -- Ken