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		ptx 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XSLT removal will break multiple government and re... What about content negotiation [1] based on the Accept header? If the client indicates a preference for HTML you could send it the human-readable page and otherwise you send the RSS feed. Wouldn't that work? [1] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/en/content-negotiation...

trekz 4 months ago [–]

It can be done but it's not practical because most RSS readers don't even send an Accept header at all, let alone one with an XML mime type.

ptx 4 months ago | [–]

But browsers do send the Accept header, so you could default to RSS for requests from other clients (such as RSS readers).

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