More Code Debugging

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 3:25 AM

Since some of the pings went through, I'm leaving the links to the places I tried to ping below. I have successfully pinged CNET News.com and Josiah's blog (in two different entries by accident — I am sorry Josiah!). I have not successfully pinged Christopher's blog, however. I thought I had, but due to a complex set of events that I shall explain sometime soon, I did not do so last night. Further attempts today seem to reveal something odd — WIT's copy of WordPress refuses to acknowledge that my posts link to a given entry, therefore making it impossible to do a proper pingback.

All else being equal, you'd think sending pingbacks to two WordPress blogs would return the same results, but for some reason it doesn't. I suspect that, for whatever reason, Christopher's server cannot connect to mine. Since inability to connect (or the returning of a 500 Internal Server Error “thanks” to mod_security) seems to be the only thing that invokes the error at hand in the case of my page, that seems to be the only thing I can figure. It could be more layers of security getting in the way perhaps, I'll have to try turning of mod_security again. To provide another view, I copied out WordPress' pingback code into a standalone PHP script and placed that on ibiblio.org — it, like Josiah's copy of WordPress, returns a successful code. We'll see what I find in the next few days.

Anyway, interesting stuff, I suppose. It might seem more so, tomorrow.

http://whatintarnation.net/blog/archives/2005/01/06/blast-from-the-past-ii-my-first-field-trip/ For debug purposes, please ignore.

CNet on Pingback/Trackback.

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Tags: blogware

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6 comments posted so far.

Re: More Code Debugging

So do you have any suggestions for what I can do?

Posted by Christopher - Jan 20, 2005 | 12:59 PM- Location: MO

Re: More Code Debugging

Yes, WIT has had troubles with all sorts of pings, so it might be a problem with (of? :) ) cranium leakage?

Posted by Flip - Jan 20, 2005 | 1:56 PM- Location: Sweden

Re: More Code Debugging

Ping at will Tim. I don’t mind. Ultimately it is a form of historical data. :-)

Posted by Josiah Ritchie - Jan 20, 2005 | 2:15 PM- Location: Lanham, MD

Re: More Code Debugging

Christopher: I was thinking it might be something on my end, but Flip may be right about it being a CL problem. If you’re interested in trying to debug it, I could send you a copy of the little debug script I whipped up last night and we could see what kind of output it comes up with…
Posted by Timothy R. Butler - Jan 20, 2005 | 8:57 PM- Location: MO

Re: More Code Debugging

I’ll e-mail you.

Posted by Christopher - Jan 21, 2005 | 2:37 AM- Location: MO

Re: More Code Debugging

Got your email and responded. :-)

Posted by Timothy R. Butler - Jan 21, 2005 | 3:00 AM- Location: MO

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