How to find out default filename of RSS feeds

ChinaMobi · 08-10-2010, 10:44 PM

When you see an RSS feed URL ending with a directory and then a slash, how can you figure out the actual file of the RSS feed?

For example, this page has a number of RSS feeds. If I click METRO, my Internet Explorer 7 correctly displays an XML file of RSS feeds, and the URL bar shows the address as:

h t t p://www.shanghaidaily.com/rss/Metro/

In the case, what is the actual file of the RSS feeds. I tried the following names and they all failed.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/rss/Metro/Metro.html
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/programming/671622-how-find-out-default-filename-rss.html
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/rss/Metro/Metro.htm
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/rss/Metro/Metro.xml
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/rss/Metro/Index.html
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/rss/Metro/Index.htm

amoeba · 08-10-2010, 11:55 PM

The address you posted, ending with /Metro/, is the correct url. On the Web, there's not always necessarily a connection between the server's filesystem layout and the URL structure. There's no need to append a filename. If you are saving the results locally, you could save it with a .xml suffix (or whatever suffix you want).
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=671622

Here's a curl session from my linux box verifying that (see the Content-Type header):

Code:

$ curl -LI http://www.shanghaidaily.com/rss/Metro/
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:53:51 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Content-Length: 32747
Content-Type: text/xml
Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDCQTDSACR=HMAOONPAGGPPIJDPENDCHCHI; path=/
Cache-Control: private
Powered-By-ChinaCache: MISS from USA-NE-1-3H1
Connection: close

ChinaMobi · 08-11-2010, 12:50 AM

Thanks for the explanation. Much appreciated.

08-10-2010, 10:44 PM	THREAD STARTER #1 (permalink)
ChinaMobi NamePros Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 42	How to find out default filename of RSS feeds When you see an RSS feed URL ending with a directory and then a slash, how can you figure out the actual file of the RSS feed? For example, this page has a number of RSS feeds. If I click METRO, my Internet Explorer 7 correctly displays an XML file of RSS feeds, and the URL bar shows the address as: h t t p://www.shanghaidaily.com/rss/Metro/ In the case, what is the actual file of the RSS feeds. I tried the following names and they all failed. http://www.shanghaidaily.com/rss/Metro/Metro.html ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/programming/671622-how-find-out-default-filename-rss.html http://www.shanghaidaily.com/rss/Metro/Metro.htm http://www.shanghaidaily.com/rss/Metro/Metro.xml http://www.shanghaidaily.com/rss/Metro/Index.html http://www.shanghaidaily.com/rss/Metro/Index.htm

08-10-2010, 11:55 PM	#2 (permalink)
amoeba NamePros Regular Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: ~$ Posts: 656	The address you posted, ending with /Metro/, is the correct url. On the Web, there's not always necessarily a connection between the server's filesystem layout and the URL structure. There's no need to append a filename. If you are saving the results locally, you could save it with a .xml suffix (or whatever suffix you want). ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=671622 Here's a curl session from my linux box verifying that (see the Content-Type header): Code: $ curl -LI http://www.shanghaidaily.com/rss/Metro/ HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:53:51 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Content-Length: 32747 Content-Type: text/xml Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDCQTDSACR=HMAOONPAGGPPIJDPENDCHCHI; path=/ Cache-Control: private Powered-By-ChinaCache: MISS from USA-NE-1-3H1 Connection: close __________________ [ syzygy ] [ free public DNS service ] Last edited by amoeba; 08-10-2010 at 11:58 PM.

08-11-2010, 12:50 AM	THREAD STARTER #3 (permalink)
ChinaMobi NamePros Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 42	Thanks for the explanation. Much appreciated.

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