Last call for RSS feeds
I’m updating the Sites Drawer for NetNewsWire for the last time before the Pro 1.0 release. So consider this last call—if you have or know of a feed or feeds that should be included, please send me email (to brent at ranchero dot com).
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NetNewsWire and referers
There has been some notice—at WriteTheWeb, Jason Kottke’s weblog, Jay Allen’s weblog, and probably other places—that RSS newsreaders are often guilty of sending a referer when no referer should be sent.

What I propose to do—and what I doubt anyone will disagree with—is to make it so that NetNewsWire does not send a referer when reading an RSS feed.

The User-Agent string will be revised to include the URL of the home page of the software, which is what some spiders do.

Unless someone talks me out of it (which I doubt will happen), these changes will appear in the next releases of both the lite and pro versions.
11:22 am #