Why are feeds under different URLs? « dolphinling’s weblog

Why are feeds under different URLs?

How come everyone does feeds with a different URL than the HTML-marked-up content? Taking Anne as an example, his blog is at http://annevankesteren.nl/, so shouldn’t I be able to point my feed reader at http://annevankesteren.nl/ and let Accept: headers and server magic do their stuff to get me a feed format?

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2 Responses to “Why are feeds under different URLs?”

Anne says:

2005-09-04 at 02:35:42

We wanted that badly, but feed readers suck.
dolphinling says:

2005-09-04 at 06:59:52

Anne: Are you saying feed readers don’t send Accept: headers? If so, that’s awful. I have half a mind to call up all the feed-reader-developers I can find and yell at them.