One minor issue: I think you need to add an additional RewriteCond directive for each of the RewriteRule directives.

Until I did that, FeedBurner got a “feed is eating itself” error on all but the first feed in the RewriteRule list. The mod_rewrite documentation confirms that RewriteCond only applies to the next RewriteRule, not all of them.

This only applies if you’re using the same URL as the feed source for FeedBurner and as the redirected feed for everyone else. From what I read here, it appears that you’re using a separate URL for FeedBurner to read, so you don’t need the RewriteCond directive at all.

There goes the Atom feed. I always pick Atom when I’m given the option, and until now there was an Atom feed available from Stopdesign. But I can’t figure out how to make FeedBurner give me an Atom feed.

I guess RSS is what’s for dinner, like it or not.

I was just wondering that every time I hear something about syndication (RSS, ATOM) , its always to publish a feed. But nobody cares about how to display them in HTML. There are millions of feeds available, but I bet, 1 % of them are being posted in form of HTML. I tried to search for a nice php/java/perl script that easily converts feeds into HTML, amd I agree that one can get those from http://www.hotscripts.com , but it is insanely hard for most people to implement them! Moreover, there are issues about CSS designs of those feeds in HTML.

I use MovableType for my site (www.arrfans.com){under construction}, and luckily there is one neat plugin available for MT !!! Otherwise, I was screwed !

I hope someone comes up with solution like Feedburner for displaying feeds in HTML… From my knowledge, there is one service called Feedroll, but it sucks big time since the parser is not on my own server.

This, of course, causes a net increase in bandwidth usage, especially for
your site host, but it will, I think, accomplish exactly what you want.

Remove the geek element from this… FeedBurner IS good.

For those less technically minded, but who know about “news feeds” (but not how the technology works), the confusion is understandable. RSS or Atom? What’s all that?? Why is there a choice? Should I offer both? Help me I’m confused?!!

Enter FeedBurner. Follow the instructions and don’t worry about all those RSS 1.0, 0.x, Atom thingys. It’s understandable why it appeals.

As for scalability, I don’t think the entire world WILL use it, same as we don’t all use Blogger, or WordPress or Movable Type etc etc. I’m sure other services like this will spring up as RSS spreads.

(Ohh and shouldn’t we change the name RSS… it’s hardly simple these days! ;-) )

Getting back to Mike P’s Opera comment though,
it would appear that Opera is being sent a 302 HTTP code which it is not respecting? (“302 Found
The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI. Since the redirection might be altered on occasion, the client SHOULD continue to use the Request-URI for future requests.” (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html))

Good to know.

Your CMS has templates for both. Use them, add them to auto discovery, link to one. You pick.

What’s the big deal?

I will probably do so sometime soon, but I’ll admit I’m concerned about letting someone else have control of my feeds.

I’ve been using them to burn 6 different feeds for about a month now and have been completely satisfied. No problems or complaints.

This all means, as I quasi-grok, that this method is NOT transparent to the client requesting the feed. Not that I have a solution.

Does anyone know: is there a mod_rewrite solution that will allow a silent redirect to an external URI?

Just an FYI, I did find some glitches with that redirect you (and many of us) use. Basically, some feedreaders (I only really found it to be Opera) will rewrite the stored url to the feedburner url. So if you ever leave Feedburner, you may lose some users.

I’ve only seen a handlful of Opera users in my stats though, so it’s not a huge issue, as far as I can tell. (I wrote about all of this here).