Can you provide citations? AFAIK, all major blog indexes and ping
endpoints *don't* require any kind of pre-registration. The extended
ping arguments are optional and, as long as the rel alternates are
present to support feed discovery, superfluous.
Anil Gangolli wrote:
A couple of considerations:
(1) A lot of the big aggregators require that you register your site
with them in order to process your pings. This is related
historically to item (2). While your ping is simply discarded if you
haven't registered, I think it's not considered good etiquette to send
pings to sites that you know will just discard them.
(2) I believe there is an updated form of the WeblogUpdatesPing call
that includes the feed url. However, Roller currently sends an
earlier version of the ping message that includes the blog url, but
does not include the feed url, and therefore requires the recipient of
the ping to know in advance the feed url corresponding to the blog
url. We should update the code to send the new version. Have to
refresh my knowledge of this a bit but it shoudn't be hard.
(3) So, If we make the change in item (2) above, we can enable pings
by default to ping targets that don't require preregistration. For
targets that require preregistration, we should leave the default
disabled.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Allen Gilliland"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:52 PM
Subject: ping targets enabled by default?
guys,
one of the things that we are looking to do on blogs.sun.com is
promote some more ways of getting our blogs to be better connected
with the blogosphere as a whole. one of the obvious ways of doing
that is through pinging of various sites that are interested in
hearing about blog content as it gets published, like Technorati.
Roller already has all the right tools for doing pings, but
unfortunately those pings are all turned off by default and there is
no way for a large site like ours to apply ping config changes that
affect all blogs in the system. right now it is basically up to the
user to manually enable any pings they want to send and i am thinking
it would be nice if we did 2 things ...
1. provide the ability to make ping targets enabled by default for
new weblogs. this way the user has to manually disable a ping,
rather than manually enable it.
2. provide a way for admins to enable/disable auto pings on a site
wide level.
This way large sites like ours could add a new ping target and
quickly enable that target for auto pings on all existing blogs as
well as future blogs.
The work to do this should be fairly minimal, basically all happening
in the global pings config page and a tweak to the action that
creates a new weblog.
thoughts? comments?
-- Allen
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