<link rel=...> in head section

[Ken Dow]

> What is the purpose of the following tag?
> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS"
> href="http://teachers.ops.org/nicklink/xml/rss.xml" />

This is the RSS autodiscovery feature. Background:

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/05/31.html
http://radio.userland.com/aggregatorAutoDiscovery

> Manila adds it, I assume through {meta}. It doesn't do anything in a
> graphical browser, but does show in Lynx and non-graphical browsers. 
> Taking
> the link pulls up a download prompt.
>
> Is there a way to turn this off?

It's removed if you turn off syndication ( /admin/sitePrefs/default$5 ) 
for the site. HTH.

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Ken

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