Re: [Subtext-devs] more testing trackbacks

[Dave @ Dave's T. S. <da...@da...>]

Thanks. The behavior sounds good to me. I just wish I could get a better
handle on why trackbacks are not sent out on new posts sometimes.

 

This is one test I did a couple hours ago. I created this new post:

http://subtext.ideaheads.com/archive/2006/08/27/23.aspx

 

As you can verify here
<http://www.shaicoggins.com/index.php/weblog/comments/teaching_and_learning_
trackbacks/> , it never created a trackback.

 

However, after I created my post, I used RedAlt to submit a trackback to
that
<http://www.shaicoggins.com/index.php/weblog/comments/teaching_and_learning_
trackbacks/>  site, and it showed up immediately, so that means the missing
trackback problem is on the Subtext side of the equation.

 

I have repeated dozens of tests like this and the Subtext trackbacks only
work part of the time. I wish I could say more about how to reproduce it.

 

David

 

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From: sub...@li...
[mailto:sub...@li...] On Behalf Of Phil Haack
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 1:49 PM
To: sub...@li...; da...@Da...
Subject: Re: [Subtext-devs] more testing trackbacks

 

Correct.  Comments do not create trackbacks.  Also, we changed the behavior
so that editing an existing post does not cause a trackback.  Only
publishing a new post.  The reason we made this changes is that .TEXT
traditionally would "trackback bomb" sites if a user made a minor tweak to
the post.


Until we can reliably do a DIFF on an edit, we don't want to send trackbacks
out when editing a published post.


Phil

 

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From: sub...@li...
[mailto:sub...@li...] On Behalf Of Dave @
Dave's Tech Shop
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 10:44 AM
To: sub...@li...
Subject: [Subtext-devs] more testing trackbacks

 

I'm still testing to make sure trackbacks are working perfectly and I have a
comment and a question.

 

The standard trackback functionality seems to be mostly working now that the
security issues are resolved. However, some times trackbacks do not work.
I'm still trying to discover a reproducible set of steps.

 

When trackbacks do not work, I am cross checking with the manual trackback
tool at RedAlt, and it always works. So I do believe there are times when
Subtext doesn't send a trackback. Can anyone suggest a good place to put a
breakpoint that would help me verify this?

 

My question is to you Phil. You left a comment at:

http://haacked.dyndns.org/latest/archive/2006/08/25/3149.aspx#6661

where you said "Let's try an outgoing test. "

 

I assume you wanted to see if that caused any kind of trackback. Did it? I
figured I would replicate what you did and see what happens. As far as I can
tell comments do not cause any trackbacks or pings. I just thought I would
verify whether this is the expected behavior.

 

David