I’ve been curious over the past few days why Vienna hasn’t been pulling in new items from my feeds. So, I just went to dig around for more info, and was horrified to find out that all the URLs for my feeds — you know, 100’s of them — to the “register for WiFi” page for the hotel. That is, I’m going to have to go track down all the URLs for the feeds and fix them.<\/p>\n
In essence, I’m screwed.<\/p>\n
And there’s the larger lesson about winning by doing the wrong thing. Without digging into the actual guts to see what’s happening, my theory is this: the hotel WiFi network does a permant redirect, the type of HTTP redirct that has the semantics of “this URL has permentaly changes, so update your URLs.” So, like a good HTTP client, Vienna went and updated all my URLS.<\/p>\n
In the happy path — if Steve or James<\/a> changed their feed URL, Vienna would switch to it without hassling me. But, unfortunitly, you can’t trust that people will use permanant HTTP redirects correctly.<\/p>\n Thus, allow me to say again: I’m screwed.<\/p>\n Trusting HTTP servers in Las Vegas is clearly a bad idea.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tags: aggregators<\/a>, http<\/a>, stallgeruch<\/a>, vienna<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been curious over the past few days why Vienna hasn’t been pulling in new items from my feeds. So, I just went to dig around for more info, and was horrified to find out that all the URLs for my feeds — you know, 100’s of them — to the “register for WiFi” page […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}