Re: [blogite] Pingback: Complexity vs Simplicity

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From: Ian Hickson (ian@hixie.ch)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 20:17:43 BST

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Stuart Langridge wrote:
>>
>> Here's my "case for complexity". [...]

I totally agree with your arguments for simplicity.

> I think the distinction, as I've said elsewhere, is that these other
> methods of pingback should be being implemented as layers on top of
> Pingback rather than as an integral part of the spec.

Hear hear.

> I can see users who are writing Pingback code but don't want to use
> XML-RPC doing a GET on
> http://pingback.net/pingback?from=http://foo&to=http://barr
> example.

Indeed they can already do this using my client-proxy, as documented here:

   http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/pingback-proxy/

This will even do the auto-discovery for you (including the HTTP header).

> Or going to a form on that server which then calls that very page.

I should do that someday really... 

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