it must be blogdesk. Windows live writer (the latest beta) works fine, so I'll use that for the time being. Thanks for your help.

*Sigh*

All done with the same results.

Time to give up?

at one point I deleted the Rpc tree and got it again through Spartacus but I'll try again.

should I point blogdesk at the root php file or the one in the plugin directory?

Unfortunately I get the same results using a password that has only letters and numbers.

The only special chars I'm using are * and ! I'll change my password and see what happens.

yes and initially it worked but wouldn't do extended entries so I kept looking for a solution and uninstalled it. I re-installed it and now it won't take entry titles. It clears them out no matter how many times I try to enter one. I'd like to find something that's not in beta but maybe there just i...

I've been searching for a good s9y windows blog client and so for they all either are missing features or don't work. I've tried BlogDesk (won't upload posts), Ecto (doesn't handle extended posts with S9y), Blogjet (has wierd image handling and no support for extended text) I can work around lack of...

Thanks Garvin. Here are the results. One interesting note is that after making the log changes the error message changed from the one shown above to: "XML parsing error: Malformed comment, '--' not allowed inside comment starting at position 40" Here's the log: [05.06.2007 10:55]<?xml vers...

Unfortunately those didn't help. here are my settings

Was there a solution in this thread?

http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?p=48 ... fe6d4498b9

I just upgraded to 1.29 and get the same results.

s9y 1.1.2 & xml plugin 1.28

No, I'm using 4.3.11

Thanks for the fast reply.

I'm also attempting to use blogdesk after having tried Windows Live writer and I'm getting the following error when trying to upload a post: "An error occured while uploading the post. Error transferring the post to the server. Errorcode:104 XML error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 17...

It turns out that the .htaccess password control does *not* interfere with normal s9y logon. I've just restored a backup of the blog and login works fine with the password control in place. I've got other issues with my hosting company (folder permissions and such) to work out before I attempt the u...