June 16, 2003
Simpletracks
Simpletracks, another creative work from Kalsey. It offers you to manually ping MT-powered blogs with filling up the form here. By giving Trackback URL, your blog name, entry title/URL, you got the Trackback feature of Movable Type. The trackback client provides an alternative to bloggers (e.g. Blogger.com users) who need the trackback feature, albeit it doesn’t yet sound friendly. (well, if you could bear with the hassle to fill up the form once you wrote a single post)
The implementation/solutions are available for a while, it’s just blogging service providers like Blogger.com or LiveJournal didn’t adopt it. May be it could start with blogging client (e.g. w.bloggar, blogBuddy) to implement the trackback client, for broader adoption.
For people looking for PHP implemention, you could get it from Dinesh’s pingMT.
June 16, 2003 01:11 PM | MovableType & Blogging[ Trackback URL for this entry: http://www.yowkee.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/112 ]
There are several problems with Dinesh's approach. The first is that you are limited to a single ping URL. It is hardcoded into the page. That's easily overcome, of course with a couple of code changes. But there are some more serious problems that would prevent it from being used as a general trackback client.
His code only works for POST requests. The trackback spec allows for both GET and POST. While all recent versions of MT have used POST, other implementations of TrackBack servers use GET. The spec also uses HTTP error codes as a valid error response, as any good REST architecture does. But Dinesh's code doesn't handle common HTTP response codes like 404, 301, or 403.
I realize that a fully manual process of entering TB information isn't ideal. I'm open to suggestions. Matt Haughey suggested a bookmarklet that would grab the page title, highlighted text, and URL and autoinsert it into the ping form. That still doesn't help you get the ping URL, but if could help. Any clever ideas on how to automate more of this?
02:02 PM on June 16, 2003 · comment by Adam Kalsey · #
Hey, Adam, great to hear from you :-).
Regarding Dinesh's solution, it's a quick hack for PHPNuke users to ping MT (and would be used for http://www.petalingstreet.org). It isn't tend to be general trackback client. My bad.
Think of automating the process, it isn't easy to be fully automated, unless those blogging service providers allow users to auto-running some task while generating post (e.g. calling remote URL/cgi). Bookmarklet is nice, blog client's implementation would be nice too... can't think of any better solution yet. :(
02:30 PM on June 16, 2003 · comment by yowkee · #
Greeting from Canada everyone!
01:34 AM on July 20, 2003 · anonymous comment · #
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