LJ/MySpace/Serendipity update plugin - adding MSN Spaces

[atiensivu]

The only tricky part I can see with this, unless I am mistaken, is that you have to contact and post your blog entry to MSN spaces using HTTPS instead of HTTP, due to the fact (mostly) that the MetaWebLog API has a misfeature in that passwords are sent over the wire in plaintext.

I know, unless I am mistaken, that PEAR has a hard time sending out HTTPS requests (at least I've seen it error out when trying to post Trackbacks to HTTPS sites), so I am curious if this is going to be problematic.

You can get the full details/specifications to MSN Space's support for the API here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sanyam/archive/20 ... ogAPI.aspx

You can read more about it here too:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... uction.asp

I am toying with the idea of doing the dirty work to get support added to the plugin, but I'm curious if anyone thinks the HTTPS part is going to be a problem.

You actually post the XML-RPC data to:
https://storage.msn.com/storageservice/MetaWeblog.rpc

Thanks if anyone can give me some insight on this!
My own s9y blog is here: http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

HTTPS is definitely a problem; you'll leed to have the openssl extension enabled in your PHP confioguration, which most web providers sadly don't have. I believe that PEAR should work properly once this extension is available.

HTH,
Garvin

[atiensivu]

Hi!

HTTPS is definitely a problem; you'll leed to have the openssl extension enabled in your PHP confioguration, which most web providers sadly don't have. I believe that PEAR should work properly once this extension is available.

HTH,
Garvin

Thankfully I am my own service provider - I'm halfway tempted to take the CURL route but I am thinking I can brute force HTTPS support into my current PEAR setup and if not, I'll just recompile my PHP binaries/libraries.

Thanks for the info!