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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound (@vidar@galaxybound.com)

@jalcine@todon.eu The "old-school" solution is to user extensions to dynamically select format. E.g. one site I worked on had urls of format /item/somenumber return HTML, but you could add ".xml", ".rss" and a few other extensions to get other formats.The annoying thing about that is that there's no reliable/standard automated way of discovering the alternative formats for arbitrary sites.But at least proxies won't break it.
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I can see something like https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#link-type-alternate being used for discerning alternative types, but that'd require parsing HTML (which is oddly deemed as taboo outside a browser nowadays).

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