TrackBacks and AutoDiscovery
Posted February 13th, 2003 @ 06:02pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Ben has an entry here about TrackBack and auto-discovery. Overall, auto-discovery works pretty well. I don't concern myself with finding TrackBack URLs unless I notice a site didn't get pinged.
What I dislike, however, is that trackbacks aren't sent within my site. If I link to a previous article, why isn't it sent a TrackBack? Why shouldn't a reader who might stumble on to that earlier article not see that I linked to it in a later article?
(Update: This is now working as Rainer has the answer - comment out the line next if $url =~ /^$archive_url/; in /lib/MT/Entry.pm.
P.S. So I can find this page easier, since I always seem to use the words "Internal TrackBack" to search for it, I'm adding the words "Internal TrackBack" to the entry.
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Posted 14 Feb 2003 at 9:17am #
I've wondered this myself.
By the way, great blog! I love to read your posts.
I feel vindicated in my own frustrations with Aqua.
Posted 15 Feb 2003 at 12:43pm #
One more chapter in the trackback saga
...One stumbling block was that MT has a built-in check to never ping the same site, as NSLog() also complains. To turn this off, go to your MT folder, find the file /Lib/MT/Entry.pm, and comment out line#289, which...
Posted 09 Jul 2003 at 1:10pm #
I can never find this article with less than two searches. I should have named it more appropriately. 🙂
Posted 06 Apr 2005 at 9:47pm #
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