Not sure if this is a bug or my setup

n2ition · Post by **n2ition** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:24 pm

I was reading a blog this morning and they have a link back to one of my posts. However...it isn't showing up as a trackback on my site. Have I set up something wrong so that my site doesn't recognize external trackbacks? If I link to other posts within my site the trackbacks are recognized...but not when someone else links to me.

The post that links back to me is here and the link is the last sentence of the post.

TIA for any help.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:28 pm

That user is using a link with "#extended" to link to your article. But your valid trackback link is without a '#extended' portion, so the bug is on the other guy's side by not using your right trackback link...

Regards,
Garvin

n2ition · Post by **n2ition** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:07 am

Garvin, thanks for the hint on what the problem was. I contacted the other blog owner and requested they change the link so that I might trouble shoot my trackbacks, which they so graciously did. Unfortunately the trackback still is not working. Once again I am wondering if it is something I have setup incorrectly.

By the way, if I select the trackback link on my site and click on the "Trackback specific URI for this entry" link I get this error:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
- <response>
<error>1</error>
<message>Danger Will Robinson, trackback failed.</message>
</response>

Is this what it should say? I'm a syndication idiot and am not really sure what that particular link is for. (I provided the "direct link to this entry" for the other blogger to link to.)

I know you are very busy and have answered TONS of my questions already but any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. I am in the process of not only working on this blog but setting another one up for my daughter.

Thanks again for all your help.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:19 pm

n2ition: This may very well be just a problem of the system your trackback partner is using. Some systems do not send trackbacks again when changing a link.

The message for your trackback sepcific URI is right. You are only allowed to post XML metadata to that URL, that's why it says "trackback specific URI".

You need to give the url http://www.n2ition.com/serendipity/inde ... TORS!.html to your user, which you did. His system then needs to send the trackback to the RDF-URL http://www.n2ition.com/serendipity/comm ... ntry_id=16.

I don't use typepad, so I sadly cannot help further with this...

Best regards (and you're welcome)
Garvin

n2ition · Post by **n2ition** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:11 pm

Thanks for following up on this for me. With all of the questions I have been posting lately and all of the trouble shooting you have been giving me I feel like you are my own personal "help desk". I'm almost done (I think) with fine tuning my site...so questions should slow down a bit.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:57 pm

No problem, I enjoy being a personal helpdesk.

In return, I'm going to come haunting your finished bungalow if I ever get to the US.

Regards,
Garvin

n2ition · Post by **n2ition** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:52 pm

Well if your going wait until it's finished you probably have the next 10 - 12 years to figure out a way to get to the US!

Not sure if this is a bug or my setup

Not sure if this is a bug or my setup

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