Blog Auto-Ping Perl Script
This is a no-nonsense Perl script that can be cleverly inserted into a cron job or just run from the commandline at any time on your Linux or Windows box (assuming you have Perl). As I said on John’s post, people on Digg are downplaying it because WordPress “automatically” does this, but what about if you want to use something other than Ping-O-Matic (another option is Pingoat)? Especially useful if you have multiple blogs or are administrating a multiple-platform blogging community.
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Ted Hawkins Says:
October 10th, 2007 at 03:52:29Hi, how did you get this to work?
I’ve tried this script and nothing happens. This is all I get:
“usage: rpcping.pl “Ted Hawkins Blog” http://www.ted-hawkins.com/” and it just hangs.
XMLRPC::Lite is present on my server.
At first it errored. Then I put in a “print “Content-type: text/html\n\n”;” and got what you see above.
What is supposed to happen?
I honestly do not understand how these things work, but I know a little Perl enough to be able to call the script when I post a new entry and that’s what I want to do.I posted this comment on Bokma’s site but he hasn’t answered. Thought maybe you might be able to help,
thanks in advance - Ted
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Michael Says:
October 10th, 2007 at 17:52:59Thanks for the comment, Ted! It may just be an example of code rot. I’ll take a look at it this weekend and try to puzzle it out, though admittedly it sounds as though you and I have similar experience with Perl.
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Ted Hawkins Says:
October 11th, 2007 at 10:24:01OK. I wasn’t sure if I need to put sime kind of XML file on my server or not, did you have to do that?
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Ted Hawkins Says:
November 30th, 2007 at 12:54:02Michael, did you ever get a chance to doing anything on this?
Cheers - Ted
October 10th, 2007 at 03:52:29
Hi, how did you get this to work?
I’ve tried this script and nothing happens. This is all I get:
“usage: rpcping.pl “Ted Hawkins Blog” http://www.ted-hawkins.com/” and it just hangs.
XMLRPC::Lite is present on my server.
At first it errored. Then I put in a “print “Content-type: text/html\n\n”;” and got what you see above.
What is supposed to happen?
I honestly do not understand how these things work, but I know a little Perl enough to be able to call the script when I post a new entry and that’s what I want to do.
I posted this comment on Bokma’s site but he hasn’t answered. Thought maybe you might be able to help,
thanks in advance - Ted
October 10th, 2007 at 17:52:59
Thanks for the comment, Ted! It may just be an example of code rot. I’ll take a look at it this weekend and try to puzzle it out, though admittedly it sounds as though you and I have similar experience with Perl.
October 11th, 2007 at 10:24:01
OK. I wasn’t sure if I need to put sime kind of XML file on my server or not, did you have to do that?
November 30th, 2007 at 12:54:02
Michael, did you ever get a chance to doing anything on this?
Cheers - Ted