Is one MIME type preferable to ensure compatibility with RSS readers and other scrapers?
The options seem to be:
- text/xml
- text/rss+xml
Interestingly Stackoverflow is using text/html.
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A:
Nither. It's application/rss+xml
http://www.rssboard.org/rss-mime-type-application.txt
vartec
2009-02-27 16:58:18
Man, you're quick off the trigger! +1
Cerebrus
2009-02-27 17:04:31
slow day at work ;-)
vartec
2009-02-27 17:05:39
A:
You could use text/xml, but the correct MIME type would be application/rss+xml.
Cerebrus
2009-02-27 17:03:49