Answer by nggit for What is the correct MIME type to use for an RSS feed?
The most correct is application/rss+xmlThe most compatible is application/xmlAccording to W3C:RSS feeds should be served as application/rss+xml (RSS 1.0 is an RDF format, so it may be served as...
View ArticleAnswer by Kai Carver for What is the correct MIME type to use for an RSS feed?
Here's a pragmatic answer: whatever the "correct" answer may be (and clearly there is debate about this), text/xml is the type used by pretty much all the popular feeds out there in the wild.Here are a...
View ArticleAnswer by Robert MacLean for What is the correct MIME type to use for an RSS...
Other commenters have pointed out that the single correct mime type is application/rss+xml,. However, if you are setting an accept header for a client thenAccept: application/rss+xml,...
View ArticleAnswer by adyoungsfan for What is the correct MIME type to use for an RSS feed?
Go for MIME application/rss+xml to be safe if you want to make sure your feed is compatible with RSS readers and other scrapers. That's what I use.
View ArticleAnswer by Cerebrus for What is the correct MIME type to use for an RSS feed?
You could use text/xml, but the correct MIME type would be application/rss+xml.
View ArticleAnswer by vartec for What is the correct MIME type to use for an RSS feed?
Neither. It's application/rss+xmlhttp://www.rssboard.org/rss-mime-type-application.txt
View ArticleWhat is the correct MIME type to use for an RSS feed?
Is one MIME type preferable to ensure compatibility with RSS readers and other scrapers?The options seem to be:text/xmltext/rss+xmlInterestingly Stackoverflow is using text/html.
View ArticleAnswer by William Desportes for What is the correct MIME type to use for an...
There is also JSON feeds: application/feed+json
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