March 19, 2004
Trackbacks
Pixy and anyone else who knows about this stuff (that means you, Jim):
Sure we're still waiting for the secrets of setting up these subfolders. But I've another question. I wrote a post with several pings in it, but those to a couple of Munu and similarly setup blogs had an error in sending the ping to the permalink. I went back and adjusted the pings to the URL for the trackbacks, but why do I need to do that? Is there some reason it doesn't ping normally to the permalink (admittedly there were several pings in the post and the others all worked)? It's happened to me before. This time I even took the trouble to add the URL to the 'Ping URL' bit at the bottom but it only worked with the trackback URLs. Any ideas?
UPDATE: I just discovered that the pings I sent to the Typepad based blogs didn't work either! I even got an error saying I was sending the Typepad pings too quickly and I had to resave the entry three times before they all went. Why is the URL to send trackbacks to different to the permalink and is there an easy way to do this?
I just want people to feel the linky-love.
Posted by Simon at March 19, 2004 08:59 AM | TrackBackTrackbacks are, unfortunately, incurably insane.
The permalink is just a link to the web page. The real trackback link is a link to the CGI program that actually handles the trackback processing.
When you do a trackback using autodiscovery, the system has to go and read the web page and parse it for the XML data that it needs to work out the appropriate trackback CGI URL. Then it needs to call that CGI program to actually handle the ping.
Given that Typepad is based on a modified MT codebase, and MT is really slow at handling trackbacks, I'm not surprised that they've had to limit the rate that pings can come in.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 19, 2004 11:57 AMAnd no, I don't know of a better way to do it. 
Got it - trackback sucks. Best go and setup a country instead.
Posted by: Simon at March 20, 2004 06:45 AM