Downloaded content is only stored in the Internet Explorer Temporary Internet Files cache.RSS Feeds are an easy way to stay up to date with your favorite websites, such as blogs or online magazines. Permanently downloading and saving content downloaded through the feed such as a podcast to a user folder is not supported.Local file system and network feeds are not supported.The Windows RSS Platform normalizes all feed formats to RSS 2.0.No support for the feed URI scheme and Media RSS.The RSS Platform object model does not expose all XML elements and attributes.Prior to IE8, the RSS platform did not support authentication/storing credentials.Internet Explorer uses an internal stylesheet for feed reading view. Although feed reading view can be disabled, custom stylesheets cannot be applied to feeds in Internet Explorer.Windows RSS Platform does not support feeds that reference a DTD.All modifications thus are reflected across all the RSS readers. All RSS clients, including Internet Explorer 7 and Microsoft Outlook 2007, share the list.

Common RSS Feed List - The list of feeds subscribed to is exposed by the RSS Platform APIs.In order to prevent the web server from being flooded on large number of feed downloads, it also adds slight random delay between requests. It uses Windows' scheduled tasks for scheduling and Background Intelligent Transfer Service for background downloading. However, it uses Attachment Execute Services to prevent automatic downloading of potentially malicious file types. By default, it does not download feed enclosures, which are objects attached to the feed however this behavior is user configurable. Common RSS Sync Engine - The sync engine is responsible for downloading the content at periodic intervals.

Access to unformatted XML for the feeds is also allowed.

The RSS Platform API exposes these feeds after sanitizing, that is stripping it of scripts, embedded objects and other potentially malicious content.

Common RSS Data Store - The data store for all feeds managed by the RSS Platform.

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

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