Lua — LUPad's RSSDigest
RSSDigest is the granddaddy of all the so called web syndication formats, along the same lines as RSS and others, but much simpler.
Né Multipart/digest in June 1992, RSSDigest was inadvertently defined in RFC 1341 by Messieurs Borenstein and Freed.
RSSDigest is quite straightforwardly defined as a sequence of Message/rfc822 MIME parts.
Here is an illustration of how a RSSDigest looks like:
From: Dave Winer <dwiner@cyber.law.harvard.edu>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 05:00:00 GMT
Subject: Scripting News
Message-Id: <742e44bd5d0ccfd3c64f07d226749079@scripting.com>
Location: http://www.scripting.com/
Content-Type: multipart/digest;
boundary = "---- next message ----"
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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:11:53 GMT
Subject: At 11AM we're having the second-ever...
Message-Id: <bec6c23ecb093878efa2144ed5123a4d@scripting.com>
Location: http://archive.scripting.com/2005/02/13#When:8:11:53AM
At 11AM we're having the second-ever Scripting News brunch at
Crook's Corner in lovely Chapel Hill, N. Cackalacky. I called the
restaurant to tell them to expect ten geeks, based on the
comments we've received.
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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:30:16 GMT
Subject: Mike Manuel: Oracle's Taste of Media Transparency
Message-Id: <bac3bede83792e601c5c268001508011@scripting.com>
Location: http://archive.scripting.com/2005/02/13#When:8:30:16AM
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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:30:16 GMT
Subject: Advertising and the Internet
Message-Id: <7e24036a87d36816e825c28a48f2dbff@scripting.com>
Location: http://archive.scripting.com/2005/02/13#advertisingAndTheInternet
At yesterday's conference Dan Gillmor talked about a looming
crisis for print pubs, that most of their advertising is moving to
the Internet, to services that don't care much about objectivity.
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Refer to the relevant RFCs for the normative specification.
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