How does RSS reader know that a feed is updated?

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RSS is a file format source and doesn’t actually know anything about where it gets the entries from. The answer really is: “how can an http request get only the newest results from a server” and the answer is Conditional GET source. Http also supports Conditional PUT.

This is an article about using this feature of http to specifically support rss hackers.

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