![]() ![]() This can keepĮach copy of Shrook updated within minutes of the channel itself Multiple copies of Shrook subscribed to the same channel. In fact, its default settings use “ Distributed Checking”:ĭistributed Checking centrally coordinates the checking activity of It’s worth noting that by default, Shrook does not behave this way. (I have my copy of NetNewsWire set to poll once an hour.) In NetNewsWire, for example, the most frequent polling interval is 30 minutes. The problem is that these Shrook users are behaving like annoying little kids in the back seat of the car, except instead of ceaselessly asking “Are we there yet? Are we there yet?”, they’re asking “Has the feed changed yet? Has the feed changed yet?”ģ04 or no 304, however, it simply rubs me the wrong way to see people checking for updates this frequently. Shrook is only downloading the feed when it has actually changed. That’s the “not modified” status code, which is the web server’s way of telling the client that the requested resource hasn’t changed since the last time the client checked. Now it’s true that Shrook isn’t downloading the entire feed each time it checks, as it respects the HTTP 304 status code. This is, to say the least, a bit annoying. Take a gander at the Checking panel in Shrook’s preferences: So, I think, there must be a bug in Shrook. That’s not to say every Shrook user is polling at an abusive clip, but that every one of my subscribers who is abusive, is using Shrook. Anything more frequent than that, I consider abuse.Įnds up every one of them is using Shrook, a $20 news aggregator for Mac OS X. ![]() Checking every 15 minutes - which itself is a bit overzealous in my opinion - would only add up to 96 hits a day. Slogging through my year-end server logs, I noticed that a handful of IP addresses are asking for Daring Fireball’s RSS feed well over 100 times per day.
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