@Halfjack mentioned pingback and I realised that Brock had contributed a Pingback Server Extension to Oddmuse back in 2004. I decided to take another look because I’m unhappy with how the Automatic Link Back currently works: it looks at referrer headings and thus it adds link for all the visitors coming to my site via blog rolls, web crawlers, etc.
Pingback would at least indicate the *intention* of letting me know about a link. I appreciate that, even if I’m 15 years late to the party. Hah!
Work in progress: pingback-server.pl
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Should work now, actually. I even wrote a test that starts a source and a target server in the background. So proud. 🙂
This blog is now officially pingback enabled. Waiting for the spam!
– Alex Schroeder 2019-01-27 19:09 UTC
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Now that I have a pingback-client implementation, I’m noticing that most of the blogs I’m interested in are Blogspot blogs which don’t have Pingback. 😢
– Alex Schroeder 2019-01-29 13:01 UTC
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Testing Jamie’s site.
– Alex Schroeder 2019-03-06
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Hah, today I read about Webmention.
The Webmention spec began as a simplified version of the Pingback spec. Where Pingback required sending the source and target URLs in an XML-RPC payload, Webmention simplified that to a form-encoded payload, which meant it could easily be used in HTML forms, was easier to work with since more tools exist for form-encoded payloads, and was not vulnerable to accidentally exposing other parts of a system’s code via XML-RPC.
Excellent! I implemented a Webmention Extension for Oddmuse.
– Alex Schroeder 2019-05-24 19:46 UTC