Re: [blogite] Before we update the spec...

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From: Ian Hickson (ian@hixie.ch)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 01:56:40 BST

On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Simon Willison wrote:
>
> I'm guessing you're catching up on the day's discussion :) To cut a long
> story short, I lost interest in the centralised server idea completely and
> found a new way to over-complicate things instead (pointing the <link> tag
> to an XML file describing various different pingback methods).

I think the XML file idea is a poor one, because it doubles the number of
hits required on pingback-enabled sites to pingback.

Also, I don't see much point. Let's just call XML-RPC the official
protocol, and people who want to use GET instead can use a proxy (such as
mine) to do it instead.

People wanting to pingback by automated e-mail can look for

   <link rev="made" href="mailto:...">

...tags instead of rel="pingback". 

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