Somehow, more than any other online service, Feedster really annoys me. For the last few days I noticed some 404 error on their feed of the day feed. I really should have unsubscribed from it when I said I would, but then they fixed it.
So this is what happens, they seem to be returning error codes based on user agent:
Connected to feedster.com.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
GET /search.php?q=f-botd&limit=15&type=rss HTTP/1.1
Host: feedster.com
User-Agent: NewzCrawler/1.7 (compatible; MSIE 6.00; Newz Crawler 1.7; http://www.newzcrawler.com/ )HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
compare that 404 error with this:
Connected to feedster.com.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
GET /search.php?q=f-botd&limit=15&type=rss HTTP/1.1
Host: feedster.com
User-Agent: testHTTP/1.1 200 OK
wtf? One less feed to worry about.
