Post #4277229
2026-07-17 04:48 UTC
Trying to do something with RSS and quickly learning that it’s literally impossible to build a parser that parses every feed correctly, mostly due to ambiguity around HTML entities in titles, article IDs being fucking optional and usually being non-stable values anyway, and that article deletion isn’t even something the format can handle.
“Really simple” my ass.
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@dale_price@mastodon.online 2026-07-17 04:54
Atom and JSON Feed aren’t really any better. Can anyone tell me what the intended security origin is for the snippets of HTML content included in feeds? I doubt if even the authors of these format specs thought about it. The atom spec, despite being written in the style of an engineering document, literally just says “pay particular attention to the security of” elements where the origin would matter. No amount of my attention is going to make up for the gaping holes in your spec, sorry