Segmentation Fault Kore Dumped

Try this google search link : Javamail smtp nabble". In the results you can see number of posts on a thread and the date of last post.

To say this is useful, is an understatement.

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Google reader seems to have got an upgrade yesterday. I noticed the links to other services being added on the top-left corner of the page. Apart from this, there were no UI or functionality changes.

But, upgrade probably included some back end changes, especially in the feed parsing engine. The article links from NYT feed are no longer clickable.

My gut feel is they probably modified the feed parser to accommodate some crappy feeds graciously. Even though RSS and Atom are touted as "standards" for feed publishing, there are just too many tags being added by all and sundry. Publishers are taking the X part of XML little too seriously (X stands for eXtensible.)

The html standard went into the trash can when Microsoft implemented its own version and then looked up the W3 standards. But, since IE was a dominant browser and it did a fine job of handling all the broken html (generated by its own Frontpage Express), nobody felt the need to write clean html. If my limited experience with RSS is anything to go by, RSS is headed for the same fate as html. (You got to tweak the off-the-shelf parser to handle some nasty feeds.) The RSS parsers would be ridiculously complex with parser handling all the whims of a major publisher. It would be sad if RSS meets early death due to its inherent strength of extensibility as RSS is picking up as primary medium of content publishing on web.





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"We don't read standards. We define them." - M

"OK, then. We'll embarrass you. " - G



The file format of the home page of MSN Spaces is unrecognized, according to Google. So, they provide a link to HTML version, which is generally reserved for doc, pdf, ppt and other browser un-friendly formats. The reason for unrecognized format is due to the Content-Type header sent by the web server. In this case it is

Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8

which, generally, is

Content-Type: text/html; charset=[encoding]

This is getting interesting. People wrote all kind of broken HTML code as IE used to handle that gracefully. IE also handled the ugly code generated by Front Page. The vicious circle just produced huge amount of junk. But, with Google search result page becoming gateway to the world, some care needs to be taken not to upset the Big Brother. Tomorrow if they incorporate conformance to W3C standards in ranking of pages (who know, they might already have,) all the broken html pages will, effectively, be inaccessible from the in web.

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I was looking for some feed parsers. And the search giant thought I'm flying from one fancy place to the other.

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