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The RSS Platform User-Agent String

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On the IE blog, Eric Lawrence presented the User-Agent string for the beta version of Internet Explorer 8 which will be available later this year. The RSS Platform will also introduce an updated User-Agent string for use with the IE8 beta. For details on the RSS Platform User-Agent string in IE7 please take a look at my past blog post.

The change is a simple increment of the version number to "2.0" as in

Windows-RSS-Platform/2.0 (MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0)

And as before, note that there are two cases to keep in mind:

  1. The user is not subscribed to the feed. The user navigates to a feed and IE presents a preview of the content.
  2. The user is subscribed to the feed. The RSS Platform retrieves the feed content on a schedule (or on demand).

In the first case, the request is made by IE and hence the IE User-Agent string is used.

In the second case, the RSS Platform User-Agent string is used.

- Walter vonKoch
Program Manager

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2008
    Do we need a <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="WinRSS=2.0" /> in rss xml file?

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2008
    Can you or have you announced what new features there will be in version 2.0 of Windows RSS platform? A version 2.0 sounds more than just an upgrade!? Will IE8 release memory better than IE7 when browsing through subscribed feeds (see http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/Leaks-in-Internet-Explorer-7-part-2.aspx)?

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    Hey NOw, I hope the RSS Feeds work great in IE8 Thx, Catto

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    Let's have the useragent explain to us in our web server access logs whether the visitor is subscribed to the feed or not. I don't think Firefox, Opera, or Safari provide such information and it would be VERY useful for marketing and statistics!

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    @John A. Bilicki III The user-agent string already tells you weather the user is subscribed or not. If the user is subscribed you see the Windows-RSS-Platform user-agent string in your logs. If the user is not subscribed, then you see the regular IE user-agent string in your logs. This is also explained in my old post: http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2006/04/28/586220.aspx

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    Ha, ok my bad, thanks for the clarification!

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    Without wanting to sound naive but what problem are you solving with this 'solution'? RSS is defined by its name :- REALLY SIMPLE

  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2008
    I've developed a new internet television application called www.RSSLiveTV.com .  However, I'd prefer to have some control over how IE7 renders the feed.  It would be nice if I could implement my own stylesheet as well. Feeds aren't just for blogs anymore!

  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    Now Windows Rss Platform support private feeds in IE8?

  • Anonymous
    March 14, 2008
    @Thiago: Yes, it does. You should install the beta and take a look.

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2008
    And when IE8 is going to be released exactly and is it going to be fully compatible?

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2008
    I hope the RSS Feeds work great in IE8

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2008
    I think the IE8 is already release.

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    May 22, 2008
    RSS is the best thing that someone created

  • Anonymous
    June 17, 2008

I'd like to be able to highlight multipe feeds as well as multiple feed items (using shift click) and then update them (such as selecting catch-up or mark as read/unread) all at one time.

I'd like to be able to set the active tab to move to the right instead of the left when closing the current tab.

   * This is controlled by the used DocuManager control, that currently does not support such an option.

  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2008
    RSS is a good idea to receive new messages, it is worthwhile to improve and I wonder what is new comes up with IE8

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    June 25, 2008
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    July 01, 2008
    Hey who is the voice in my speech who blew up my monitor in real time. Guess that image must have a attitude. Or something wierd happen. was looking for Something and when I said it was not there got a little bugged.

  • Anonymous
    September 09, 2008
    Hi, I'm getting this error when I try to add a reference in visual studio project: "A reference to Microsoft Feeds, versio 1.0 could not be added. Could not register the ActiveX type library C:WindowsSystem32msfeeds.dll" I'm using Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2. What's the problem? my email is thiago dot farina @ gmail dot com

  • Anonymous
    September 24, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2008
    Work will be fine I hope. Thanks for the entry adam/seeee

  • Anonymous
    November 29, 2008
    Thanks for very interesting article.

  • Anonymous
    January 03, 2009
    Has it been released yet? I can't find it.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    No more news about Windows RSS Platform? The platform is finished?

  • Anonymous
    June 17, 2009
    Work will be fine I hope. Thanks for the entr

  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2009
    Offtopic but why doesn't IE have a simple "Use feed reading view (apply internal stylesheet for RSS feeds) only when custom stylesheet is not specified"? I'd like to see this fundamental feature in IE vNext please. Please forward this to the RSS platform team.

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    July 24, 2009
    i have done some test and i think this is working perfect with IE 8...

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    November 28, 2009
    Do we need a <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="WinRSS=2.0" /> in rss xml file?

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