[prssr-devel-ml] Updating feeds
- From: David Andrs <pda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: prssr-devel-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:45:02 +0100
Hi to all beta testers!
Last two weeks I was dealing with updating feeds. There are two major problems:
a) updating is slow
b) updating is not reliabe
For testing I have used Hal's OPML file (over 60 feeds) - very good
for testing. The current implementation of download/update is done via
WinInet API. It is very easy to use, but very slow.
So I tried to replace this API with my own. I succeeded. The result is:
- 4x times quicker update
- pRSSreader is about 3KB larger
But there are some problems. If I used Hal's test file, about 10 feeds
was updated sucessfully, the rest was not. Not good. So I tried to
figure out where is the problem.
I tried similar implemetation with WinInet then with MFC wrapper of
WinInet. The former one had similar result as my own implemetation,
the latter one was a bit more successful. Every updates were run with
cradled PDA and connection via ActiveSync on desktop PC.
On monday I tried my own implementation on WiFi connection and it runs
perfectly - fast and reliable. I have made test with Egress, if it is
able to update Hal's OPML file and the result was pretty same as with
pRSSreader. Thus, there must be some error in ActiveSync which
disallows a lot of subsequent connections, because if I updated site
by site manually (not via Update All), the reliability grows up
(nearly 100%).
Now, I have to make decision which implementation should I use and I
would like to know your opinions. Here are pros (+) and cons (-):
WinInet:
+ quite reliable with ActiveSync
+ smaller pRSSreader's binary
+ debugged
- slow
- hard to extent in future (SSL, digest authentication), but probably possible
My implementation:
+ fast
+ easy to extent
+ quite reliable with ActiveSync
+ full control on what is happening
- bigger pRSSreader's binary
- not full implementation of HTTP - will need lot of tests to work
properly (will need your help)
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David
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