Testing Trackbacks with tblib


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Matthew Langham:

Frank is looking for someone to test whether his Trackback works. Radio doesn’t support Trackback – so perhaps some kind person will help. Thanks!

I use Radio, and therefore don’t have trackback support, but I did ping his weblog manually with a python trackback library that I wrote.  His trackbacks seem to be working fine.

[user @ box tb]$ ./tbclient.py -tburl http://www.koehntopp.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/204 -title "Testing Trackback" -excerpt "I use Radio, which doesn't support trackback either, so I'm pinging gadgetguy.de with a command line client using tblib." -blogname "Matt Croydon::postneo" -url http://postneo.com/2003/02/07.html#a1992
Trackback command line client here.  Preparing TrackBack...
TrackBack URL: http://www.koehntopp.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/204
TrackBack Title: Testing Trackback
TrackBack Excerpt: I use Radio, which doesn't support trackback either, so I'm pinging gadgetguy.de with a command line client using tblib.
Your Weblog Name: Matt Croydon::postneo
Your URL: http://postneo.com/2003/02/07.html#a1992
Pinging http://www.koehntopp.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/204...
HTTP Response: 200 OK
TrackBack Error Code is: 0 (zero is okay)
Done!