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23 lines
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A "pingback" is a system whereby URLs you might reference in a blog post are
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contacted by the blog publishing software at publishing time (i.e., once) so
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that they might update a list of "pingbacks" to the URL. The originating
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URL's blog software might then display a list of pingbacks, or an excerpt of
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the text from your blog, perhaps interleaved with comments, etc.
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At a technical level, external URLs are extracted from your blog post by the
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blogging software, fetched, inspected for information to determine whether the
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remote server is configured to support pingbacks (look for link tags, or HTTP
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headers) and the relevant pingback URL sent an XML-RPC packet.
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There are other technologies to achieve the same thing: trackbacks predate
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pingbacks but are more vulnerable to spam due to design problems.
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The spec for pingbacks is at <http://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback>.
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I would like to somehow use pingbacks in conjunction with ikiwiki. I suppose
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this could be achieved using a commit hook and some external software in which
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case I will consider this done with an entry in [[tips]]; otherwise a
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[[plugins|plugin]] to implement pingbacks would be great.
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-- [[Jon]] (Wed Jan 14 13:48:47 GMT 2009)
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