[wp-hackers] Quest for Self Pingbacks

[Peter Westwood]

Could you try on your test blog with the patch on this ticket applied.

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10588

This switches the IXR class over to use the WordPress HTTP api instead  
of fsockopen for connections it should be more reliable.

Please leave feedback on your sucess/lack there of on the ticket.

--
Peter Westwood
http://peter.westwood.name

On 30 Aug 2009, at 03:17, Chris Kasten <handy.solo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Future posts do indeed work (mentioned a couple stanzas below your  
> reply ;-)
> )
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au 
> >wrote:
>
>> Is the cron system working?
>>
>> Try a future-publish post, See if that gets published (Thats based  
>> on the
>> Cron system).
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:11:44 +1000, Chris Kasten <handy.solo at gmail.com 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> On a fresh locally install blog self pingbacks work just fine. I  
>> guess
>>> this
>>> may be a Dreamhost related issue?What a bummer.
>>>
>>> I poked around through the access and error logs but didn't see any
>>> obvious
>>> errors.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Chris Kasten <handy.solo at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm hosted on Dreamhost. As mentioned earlier, self pings were  
>>> good until
>>>> the beginning of this year (which may coincide with a WP release?  
>>>> I can't
>>>> recall now).
>>>> I also tried a pingback from one of my blogs to the other (but  
>>>> both on
>>>> Dreamhost and both in same domain). Same deal, no pingback and  
>>>> nothing in
>>>> the ping fields in the Posts table.
>>>>
>>>> I just tested a future post and it worked. What else would you  
>>>> like me to
>>>> try? I get the same results with my blog as I do with a test blog  
>>>> (no
>>>> plugins / default theme).
>>>>
>>>> I guess one next step would be to get one going locally (as in  
>>>> not on
>>>> Dreamhost) and see how self pings go there. Anything else I  
>>>> should look
>>>> at?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From your note, it sounds like I can assume that self pings  
>>>> _should_
>>>> still
>>>> work?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Peter Westwood <
>>>> peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It sounds like you are suffering from oases which prevent the  
>>>> self pings
>>>>> from working.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is normally due to hosting confug in relation to  
>>>>> connections back
>>>>> to
>>>>> your server from your server.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does the built in cron system work for you? For example does  
>>>>> future
>>>>> publishing posts work?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Peter Westwood
>>>>> http://peter.westwood.name
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 29 Aug 2009, at 18:47, Chris Kasten <handy.solo at gmail.com>  
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes thanks. I realize a lot of people don't like them.  That's  
>>>>> why that
>>>>>
>>>>>> No
>>>>>> Pings plugin was invented! But I do like 'em and WP used to  
>>>>>> generate
>>>>>> them.
>>>>>> Like or dislike, I just wish to confirm that they (self pings)  
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> indeed
>>>>>> dropped by WP now. If so, A nudge on how to re-enable them with a
>>>>>> plugin
>>>>>> would be really groovy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Chris Kasten
>>>>>> Solo Technology
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Rics <ricardo.cezar at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Personally, I don't like self trackbacks... it's anoying.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I prefer to have related posts and use trackback only from other
>>>>>>> websites.
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> Rics
>>>>>>> http://www.pensarics.com
>>>>>>> http://www.meadiciona.com/rics
>>>>>>> Maringá, PR - Brasil
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2009/8/29 scribu <scribu at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's ironic, since there's a plugin that does the opposite.  
>>>>>>> It's
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> called
>>>>>>>> No
>>>>>>>> Self Pings.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> http://scribu.net
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