Trackback stuffs

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 02:17, Ted Leung wrote:
> I'm not sure I know what list mode and RSS mode are supposed to do -- I 
> don't see them in the Moveable Type trackback spec.  Is there a document 
> somewhere?

List mode:
  A representation of all the trackbacks pertaining to a page. See:
http://roughingit.subtlehints.net/tb.cgi?__mode=list&tb_id=weblogs_tools_pyblosxom_pyblosxom_0_8rc1

RSS Mode:
  RSS representation of the list mode, usually done by the params
__mode=rss:
http://roughingit.subtlehints.net/tb.cgi?__mode=rss&tb_id=weblogs_tools_pyblosxom_pyblosxom_0_8rc1

If you send a trackback ping to Sam Ruby, he'd try to 'backtrack' using
the RSS mode. See http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1566.html and at the
last comment on this page, you'll see a [more] and a [back], clicking on
the [back] button will, erm, you have to see the magic for yourself :)
The code is available, look at
http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/?q=backtrack and you'll see some
answers.

And wait, there's more! :)
XMLRPC mode:
  Used to build heirarchical trees of trackbacks of trackbacks of
trackbacks, hehe am I being repetitive? Just look at
http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/tb-thread1.html for a nice
representation of what I'm talking about.

Specs for this are at:
http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mtmanual_programmatic.html#xmlrpc%20api
only one method to support, which is:

mt.getTrackbackPings
Description: Retrieve the list of TrackBack pings posted to a particular
entry. This could be used to programmatically retrieve the list of pings
for a particular entry, then iterate through each of those pings doing
the same, until one has built up a graph of the web of entries
referencing one another on a particular topic. 

Parameters: String postid

Return value: an array of structs containing String pingTitle (the title
of the entry sent in the ping), String pingURL (the URL of the entry),
and String pingIP (the IP address of the host that sent the ping).




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