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Windows RSS Platform, included in Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Vista is a platform that exposes feed handling and management to Windows applications. The RSS support in Internet Explorer 7 is built on the Windows RSS Platform.

Overview

Windows RSS Platform consists of three components:

  • Feed Store - The data store for all feeds managed by the RSS Platform. The RSS Platform API exposes these feeds after sanitizing, that is stripping it off scripts, embeeded objects and other potentially malicious stuff. Access to unformatted XML for the feeds is also allowed.
  • Download engine - The download engine is responsible for downloading the content at periodic intervals. By default, it does not download feed enclosures, which are objects attached to the feed; however this behavior is user configurable. However, it uses Attachment Execute Services to prevent automatic downloading of potentially malicious file types. It uses Windows' Scheduled tasks for scheduling and BITS for background downloading. In order to prevent the web server from being flooded on large number of feed downloads, it also adds slight random delay between requests.
  • Common Feed List - The list of feeds subscribed to is exposed by the RSS Platform APIs. All RSS clients, including Internet Explorer 7 and Microsoft Outlook 2007, share the list. All modifications thus are reflected across all the RSS readers.

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