Open Letter to Fox News
Your Fox News Sunday podcast feed is seriously broken. The GUID field keeps updating every hour or so, so my podcast client (iTunes) downloads the same audio over and over, so I have a dozen or more copies and I have to keep deleting them.
The GUID field should *never change*. For a particular audio file, it should always remain the same.
But on your feed, the GUID keeps getting updated, for example, when I got it last night (about 1 a.m. PT, 4 a.m. ET), it was:
And right now (about 4 p.m. ET), it is:
This addition of the timestamp to the guid is unnecessary and actually harmful, as it causes clients to think that each new timestamp represents a new file to download.
Regards,
-- pudge
The GUID field should *never change*. For a particular audio file, it should always remain the same.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#ltguidgtSubelementOfLtitemgt
But on your feed, the GUID keeps getting updated, for example, when I got it last night (about 1 a.m. PT, 4 a.m. ET), it was:
http://media2.foxnews.com/062506/062506_podcast_fns5_128.mp3?20060702035331
And right now (about 4 p.m. ET), it is:
http://media2.foxnews.com/062506/062506_podcast_fns5_128.mp3?20060702160356
This addition of the timestamp to the guid is unnecessary and actually harmful, as it causes clients to think that each new timestamp represents a new file to download.
Regards,
-- pudge
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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