Pinging weblogs.com etc
Hi, I've written my own blog script in Perl and am at the point where I need to be able to ping the various servers to let them know a new entry has been posted.
It's at this stage I fall down. Is there a simple, but effective way to do that in Perl?
I have tried a couple of scripts but nothing happens. I know nothing about XML (so please go easy on me). My server, like most, has the XMLRPC Lite module if that's any help.
My script produces an RSS feed document in xml (simple but there).
Hope someone can help, many thanks - Ted
kb posted this at 21:17 — 18th August 2007.
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I'm not exactly sure how other services work, but I know for a fact that Google Reader actually checks for new entries at a certain interval, and doesn't require pinging.
I would assume that's the way it is done, otherwise alot of time would be spent pinging for useless reasons.
Tedh posted this at 20:03 — 19th August 2007.
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I'll check Google Reader out Kyle, I'd never heard of it until you mentioned it (there's so much happening, so fast, it's wonder any of us keep up with it
).
There seem to be several different blog logging servers out there. Some of them, I just found out, give you an XML file, but don't say what you're actually to do with it.
cheers - Ted
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