Comments on: Follow-up on Feedburner

By: Vicki

Vicki — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 05:19:57 +0000

Ben: thanks for the tip! Good one! Yes I use PHP.

Rick: great to get the input. I admire a company that actively seeks out feedback like mine and deals with it as you have done. I’d be happy to discuss my perceptions with you via IM. I’ll just clarify here that I was very happy with FeedBurner’s service but I just got concerned about exiting.

By: Rick Klau

Rick Klau — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:21:58 +0000

Looks like we need to do a better job explaining our exit strategy. We *do* redirect any user’s feeds for them once they decide to stop using our service, details are here: http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/001251.html.

Sorry you didn’t like the service, please let us know how we could have done a better job. In the meantime, if you need help setting up that redirect to get subscribers back to your domain’s feed, let us know!

Regards,

Rick

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By: Ben Buchanan

Ben Buchanan — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 14:04:15 +0000

Heya. I used a PHP trick to get around feed control issues, admittedly on a low-risk feed If you have PHP this might be useful (whack this into a file like feed.php):

$filename = "http://www.website.com/sourcefeed.xml"; // Enter the URL of the source feed
header("Content-type: application/xml"); // Set the MIME type to application/xml
readfile($filename); // Read in the source file and send it out to the user
?>

Basically what happens is you get people to subscribe to the PHP file’s location; it pulls in your feed from wherever it’s currently living and pretends to be an XML file. OK so long as the load doesn’t get too high. You can also get PHP to write the file out to a local XML file; but then you need a cron job to periodically trigger the script.

Of course if your server doesn’t have PHP, feel free to ignore me