Re: Weblogsping question

Brett Kelly wrote:

>Me again :)
>
>Just installed the weblogsping plugin, used cPickle to check the
>results of the test post and this is what i get:
>  
>
>>>>import cPickle
>>>>cPickle.load(open("/inkedmn.com/data/posts/LATEST"))
>>>>        
>>>>
>{'lastPing': 1093246175, 'response1': {'message': 'Thanks for the
>ping.', 'flerror': False}, 'response': {'message': 'Unexpected
>failure.', 'flerror': True}, 'latest': 1093236026.0}
>
>that and I see nothing on weblogs.com indicating my post (not suprisingly).
>
>Anybody encountered this?
>  
>
response is the result of pinging weblogs.com, reponse1 on the other 
hand is the result for blo.gs. Blo.gs is definitely more reliable for 
pinging than weblogs.com, which I believe is quite overloaded. You can 
see that the response dict actually contains 'message' and 'flerror' 
which means that you manage to talk to the server, and the weblogs.com 
server replies to you without any protocol errors, but it is in fact 
some other possibly internal error.

What I don't like about weblogs.com is that the server is checking your 
status before replying to you, jamming up the sockets like nobody's 
business (I'm not sure how it runs now though). Anyway, don't worry 
about it, you got blo.gs ping, you'll notify others somehow.

I remember pinging weblogs.com, and when that got through, the next few 
minutes, bots with SPAM referrers came to my site just to advertise 
their sites, and possibly, these bots scans email addresses too, as they 
seem to dig deep in the pyblosxom hierarchy. Not healthy at all for a 
blosxom type site.


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