Re:A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers (2022)
by ozarker on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @08:31AM
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I was just thinking a header with a suggested poll rate might be nice
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Re:A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers (2022)
by moebrowne on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:49AM
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The GitHub Event API uses a `X-Poll-Interval` header for this purpose. There is also Retry-After but that seems more targeted towards error states.
EDIT: There is the `Cache-Control` header, it seems ideal for this use-case
- https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/rest/acti... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ca...