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diff --git a/doc/todo/pingback_support.mdwn b/doc/todo/pingback_support.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6632cc747 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/pingback_support.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +A "pingback" is a system whereby URLs you might reference in a blog post are +contacted by the blog publishing software at publishing time (i.e., once) so +that they might update a list of "pingbacks" to the URL. The originating +URL's blog software might then display a list of pingbacks, or an excerpt of +the text from your blog, perhaps interleaved with comments, etc. + +At a technical level, external URLs are extracted from your blog post by the +blogging software, fetched, inspected for information to determine whether the +remote server is configured to support pingbacks (look for link tags, or HTTP +headers) and the relevant pingback URL sent an XML-RPC packet. + +There are other technologies to achieve the same thing: trackbacks predate +pingbacks but are more vulnerable to spam due to design problems. + +The spec for pingbacks is at <http://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback>. + +I would like to somehow use pingbacks in conjunction with ikiwiki. I suppose +this could be achieved using a commit hook and some external software in which +case I will consider this done with an entry in [[tips]]; otherwise a +[[plugins|plugin]] to implement pingbacks would be great. + +-- [[Jon]] (Wed Jan 14 13:48:47 GMT 2009) |