Comments on: Reducing My Bandwidth http://www.armswiper.co.uk/blog/view/506 Developer, Rower, Funny Man Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Paul Turner http://www.armswiper.co.uk/blog/view/506/comment-page-1#comment-258 Paul Turner Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:53:23 +0000 http://www.armswiper.co.uk/?p=506#comment-258 Using FireBug you can see that Google Reader makes requests for all RSS feeds on the google.com domain. These are set to expire immediately (although you can go to off line with Google Gears enabled). Requests for images however are made directly to the image URL in the RSS feed. This is normally the same domain as the RSS feed, and will be cached if that web server is sending any max-age or Expires headers. I don't know of an RSS reader that meets your needs. You could write one ;) Using FireBug you can see that Google Reader makes requests for all RSS feeds on the google.com domain. These are set to expire immediately (although you can go to off line with Google Gears enabled).

Requests for images however are made directly to the image URL in the RSS feed. This is normally the same domain as the RSS feed, and will be cached if that web server is sending any max-age or Expires headers.

I don’t know of an RSS reader that meets your needs. You could write one ;)

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