Re: Pingback

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From: Stuart Langridge (aquarius-lists@kryogenix.org)
Date: Mon Sep 02 2002 - 13:36:25 BST

Stuart Langridge spoo'd forth:
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> 3. AliceBlog requests http://www.bob.com/post5 and parses it for a
> <link> tag matching <link rel="pingback" href="http://foo/xmlrpcserver">.
> 4. If it doesn't find one, or the response of the request doesn't seem
> to support it, then die (see note 1 below).

Sarabian points out that I left out note 1. The issue here is that if
you ping my XML-RPC server and claim that the referring URL is
"http://somewhere/aMassive500MBAviFile.avi" or something then the
blogging system needs to not download all of it before checking to see
if the referred-to URL is contained therein!

sil 

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