[spam-stopper] API document questions

[Ethan Glasser-Camp]

Ethan Glasser-Camp wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm working on an Akismet binding in server-side JavaScript and so I 
> was studying the document at http://akismet.com/development/api/ . 
> I've had a few questions which I was hoping you could answer for me.
>
> 1) The Comment Check API complains that there was an "Empty 'key' 
> value". The document above mentions no key value except in the domain.
>
> 2) The Comment Check call is documented to return "true" or "false" as 
> the body content, but so far I've only gotten "valid" and "invalid". 
> Is this expected, or am I doing something wrong?
>
> 3) The document says that if I'm having a hard time triggering I can 
> use the author as "viagra-test-123" and it will always trigger true, 
> but this still returns "valid", which I assume means "not spam". 
> Again, am I doing something horribly wrong?
The answer seems to be that I had a problem with my HTTP library 
re-using connections in some horrible way. So, yes, I was doing 
something horribly wrong.

Ethan