[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #9611: Make comment feeds fail with an error code when comments are closed

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Wed Jan 12 12:40:06 UTC 2011


#9611: Make comment feeds fail with an error code when comments are closed
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 Reporter:  Denis-de-Bernardy       |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement             |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                  |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Feeds                   |     Version:  2.8
 Severity:  minor                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch dev-feedback  |
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Changes (by solarissmoke):

 * keywords:  needs-patch => has-patch dev-feedback


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:6 Denis-de-Bernardy]:
 > It's annoying to have feed readers who are knocking your site's
 individual posts and pages' feeds when comments are closed. It's just a
 waste of bandwidth... :-)

 I agree! Here is a patch to (a) stop advertising the comment feed and (b)
 410 the feed when comments are closed.

 However, I feel like not everyone will be happy to implement this...

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9611#comment:8>
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