Generate feed XML for acceptableads.com blog

[saroyanm]

Background

We are not generating RSS and ATOM feeds for acceptableads.com/blog, which makes hard for user to keep up with changes

What to change

Generate RSS and ATOM feeds for ​https://acceptableads.com/blog/ and ​https://acceptableads.com/committee/ (Recent updates blog list).

[saroyanm]

I'm not yet sure about the module, I assume this should be in the alignment with the sitescript module, but at least we will be able to collect all the requirements here before applying the right module.

RSS specification link -> ​http://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html
ATOM specification link -> ​https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287

[juliandoucette]

If I remember correctly, adblockplus/cms does not add extensions to it's output. If that is true then we should be able to generate an RSS feed using get_pages_metadata, a template, and a page. I don't know if the server would recognize this file as an xml file and not an HTML file though.

Can you verify ferris and/or kvas?

[ferris]

Jon or Vasily should be able to answer regarding CMS.

Regarding file type, the server can be configured to set content type per path/filename. So if we have .rss files, we could configure their content-type to be application/rss+xml I think. Assuming that all content is just static files. Anyhow, I don't think browsers these days give RSS much special treatment. Perhaps we should offer an easy way for the reader to copy/paste the RSS URL.

[kvas]

Hi Ferris and Julian. What you're proposing makes sense and I think it should work. If it doesn't and we can fix it with some help from CMS side, we'd be happy to look into this.

[juliandoucette]

@kvas, @ferris I don't think that manually configuring file types in server config is a good solution.

Why not add extensions to CMS output and allow the extension to be defined as a page property?

[greiner]

Replying to ferris:

Perhaps we should offer an easy way for the reader to copy/paste the RSS URL.

If it helps you can check out how I implemented it ​on my personal blog.

It's basically just a set of static links so pretty simple to implement.

[jsonesen]

Hey all,

As a follow up to a discussion between Vasily, and I. We found that adding two extensions (the second being either html, md, or tmpl) will retain the extension you add prior to the final ext. (ie the filename would be: feed.rss.tmpl and the resulting file after generation is feed.rss) This at first glance seemed rather hacky and maybe not the cleanest solution. However, after some deliberation we came to the agreement that since the RSS feed would in fact be a template populated using a global as julian had mentioned earlier this actually is not so ugly.

What do you all think?

[juliandoucette]

What do you all think?

Fine by me if our infrastructure servers it properly. Did you test that (HTTP headers)?

[kvas]

According to Matze some minimal one time configuration will be necessary to make this work. I can follow up with him on this to make sure it's in place by the time any RSS files hit the website repositories.