? Pingback Receiving, doesn't fetch content?

johncanary · Post by **johncanary** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:54 pm

Hi,
A quick question to Pingback with S9Y V1.3.1.

When S9Y receives a pinkback, it records it as pinkback and shows in
in the Trackbacks section

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PingBack (->link to blog post)

Weblog: blog.example.com
Tracked: Jun 04, 20:31

It does not fetch and add any content from there?

I thought it will, just from reading the NEWS file.

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    * Pingback/Trackback textfetching: HTML Entities are now converted
      to characters. (brockhaus)

    * For Pingback it is now possible to define the maximum amount of
      characters while fetching text of the remote site. Add 
      $serendipity['pingbackFetchPageMaxLength'] = 200 to your 
      serendipity_config_local.php. (brockhaus)

Didn't work for me when getting pingbacks from Wordpress 2.5.
Anybody with more luck?

What's the default now? Pinkback or Trackback?

Seems like s9y sends trackbacks to itself, when referenced from
another post on the same blog.

Yours
JohnCanary

Post by **garvinhicking** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:39 pm

Hi!

Yeah, pingbacks have no content -- that's what makes them different to trackbacks... I believe there is some fallback code in s9y that tries to match some portion of the HTML page, but that might fail if the amount of characters fetched only contain HTML tags and no real content.

Regards,
Garvin

johncanary · Post by **johncanary** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 5:13 pm

I know, pingbacks don't carry content.

The default for $serendipity['pingbackFetchPageMaxLength'] == 200
Right, that will in almost all cases, not even get the complete
<head>...</head>.

I just set it to 20000, but no difference. So I am not quite sure, what this
variable is supposed to do.

I tested a pingback from a Wordpress 2.5.1 Blog to the s9y 1.3.1. blog.
Pingback received normally, shows up as link the WP blog post

(Spam Protector was disabled,
Trackback Control Plugin active)

Probably brockhaus will say something.

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