What to use for RSS feeds?

Monday, October 13, 2003

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I noticed in Eric Sink's post about Vault's RSS feeds that they use an ASPX file for RSS feeds.

Is there an advantage in using ASP files? Maybe the not-so-well-known ASHX files are better adapted as they require less resources and we don't need to render HTML?

What I use myself (eg. for the SharpToolbox feeds) is something else : an ASMX with webmethods available for GET requests. The advantage of this method is that the expected parameters are defined just like with any other method, and you get an error if the parameters are not provided as expected. Of course, this is less flexible than a simple URL query where you can have optional parameters.

What do you use and why?

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Any work I've done with creating ANYTHING webside that hasn't been either a webpage or a webservice (rss, gifs, etc) has been with a ashx page.

I see a lot of people writing ASPX pages with a response.clear statement or something of that nature to handle the fact that by default they are webpage. Why not start from scratch and go with ashx pages.

Oh, I know. VS.Net hardly any support for them.

Phil Scott - Tuesday, October 14, 2003 5:00:00 AM

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