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HTTP Features¶

  • ETag and Last-Modified Headers
    • Using ETags to reduce bandwidth
    • Using Last-Modified headers to reduce bandwidth
  • User-Agent and Referer Headers
    • Customizing the User-Agent
    • Customizing the User-Agent permanently
    • Customizing the referrer
  • HTTP Redirects
    • Noticing temporary redirects
    • Noticing permanent redirects
    • Noticing feeds marked “gone”
  • Password-Protected Feeds
    • Downloading a feed protected by basic authentication (the easy way)
    • Downloading a feed protected by digest authentication (the easy but horribly insecure way)
    • Downloading a feed protected by HTTP basic authentication (the hard way)
    • Downloading a feed protected by HTTP digest authentication (the secure way)
    • Determining that a feed is password-protected
  • Other HTTP Headers
    • Sending custom HTTP request headers
    • Accessing other HTTP response headers
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