phil ringnalda

Trying the blo.gs ping stuffed into MT.pm, where MT does its calls to MT::XMLRPC, instead. Perhaps it will be better behaved there. I would have liked to redo the whole ping subroutine, since it currently dies on the first error (say, pinging weblogs.com returns an error: you don’t get to ping anything else, including the MT recently updated), but I’m not bright enough. Luckily, that’s supposed to be on the “to fix” list, and I see by the comments in MT.pm that pinging clouds other than weblogs.com is also on the list. The only thing I like better than hacking in a temporary solution is to see an official permanent solution instead.

<update>Works for me, but then it worked for me before. We’ll see whether it does the trick for Shannon.</update>

<update number=”2″>Takes care of the problems in Shannon’s blog, too.</update>

So, if hacking CMS.pm doesn’t work for you, try this:

• Edit /mt/lib/MT.pm
• Find the line in sub ping that reads MT::XMLRPC->weblogs_ping($blog) or return $mt->error(MT::XMLRPC->errstr); (displayed on two lines, but it’s one line of code)
• Insert a new line immediately after that, that reads: MT::XMLRPC->ping_update('weblogUpdates.ping', $blog, 'http://ping.blo.gs/') or return $mt->error(MT::XMLRPC->errstr);

Save, reupload, publish a new post, and check blo.gs and weblogs.com.