on 25/07/03 10:46 am, David Davies at d.a.davies@... wrote:


Our man will probably chime in when he gets up... In the meantime, I'd like
to carry this on with you if I may.

> 1. I can now make a trackback link to any appropriately enabled Radio weblog
> and Moveable Type. I've discovered why I couldn't apparently make a
> successful trackback ping last night. I was editing an existing post then
> re-posting it in an attempt to make the trackback link. This clearly doesn't
> work. Making a new post with a link to MT or my Radio weblog does work.
Yes, it seems like a once time hit. I thought to, that by editing, I'd
re-ping the site. I guess this is to stop, duplicate trackbacks in the
remote site.

> 2. The Radio script at the moment only pings a trackback URL once, at the
> time of initial posting. Subsequent editing of the post does not result in a
> new trackback ping. Consequently if the trackback pings at post creation for
> whatever reason it'll always fail in that post even if re-edited. I
> confirmed this by manually changing flPinged and flChecked to false. Then if
> I edit the post a new ping is made and a successful trackback link is
> created. This explains the behaviour in 1.
>
> 3. Deleting a post or URL link in a post doesn't delete the trackback. But I
> guess there's no API for this in the trackback spec.
I thought too, that editing the message would edit my text in the trackback
on the remote site. It doesn't, so make sure everything is spelled correctly
etc, when you first ping/post. But this allows you to send your first post
to the remote site, as the 'hook of the message that you later edit on your
site. Horse before cart perhaps, but...

> 4. If I enter a URL in the URLs to ping box when making a post, these URLs
> are not available when the post is edited.
I mentioned this earlier. So you post a message along with ping URLs, but
when you edit in the browser, those ping URLs are not shown, I guess their
job is done (as 1.) But it does seem like an error.





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