Ian Hickson has been going on for a while about Pingback. The spec says there are six known implementations; one of these is a server for Movable Type by Stuart Langridge, but I defy anyone to find it on his site. If it’s only for private use, I don’t mind, but in that case why advertise it… and if it’s already written, what does this mean?
(If it sounds like I want something for nothing… well, I guess I do, although I’ll provide whatever I can in return in the form of bug reports, patches, etc. As a friend’s e-mail signature says, humans are tool users, and I’m nothing if not human.)
Not that it matters, of course–trackbacks and pingbacks are just a big popularity contest anyway, right?
My plan was always to release the code I hacked into MT to do Pingback. I have the server working, but not the client, and the server still throws errors all the time (doesn’t stop it *working*, but it looks very ugly). I draw your attention to my post, To hell with Perl, where I bemoan my inability to actually get the code working. I can’t release it in the state it’s in, throwing errors left right and centre, which is why I asked for help, but no-one offered. My original plan was to submit the code in slightly poor state to Ben and Mena for MT, but Ben doesn’t like Pingback when compared with Trackback and therefore is unlikely to integrate the code. I’m happy to give the code to anyone who wants it, but it embarrasses me that my Perl skills are so poor 🙁
To Hell with Perl is at http://www.kryogenix.org/days/000258.cas. Oops 🙂
I surrender. Stuart sent me his code just after this, and I’ve had no more luck than he did. Ian Hickson’s Pingback proxies http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/pingback-proxy/ seem to be the way to go instead, but I’m not smart enough (yet?) to figure out how to configure them.