Forum Subject: Trackback Comments

Posted on: 05/31/08 09:59am
By: Laugh

I've just started using trackback comments for the few posts that I think warrant it.

Half the time I usually get this response back from geeklog

Error when sending trackback comment:
Response not understood.


I assumed either the url I used wasn't right (usually the url to the post) or something else happened.

A google blog gave me this same error so I assumed it didn't work but the next day I noticed I was receiving traffic from this blog and I checked it out and saw the trackback link.

Is there any way to get more information and the response to a trackback comment to see what is going on here?

Thanks

Re: Trackback Comments

Posted on: 05/31/08 10:17am
By: Dirk

The receiving site is supposed to respond with a specific piece of XML. Geeklog will then parse that XML and try to figure out if the Trackback was sent successfully or not.

If you get "Response not understood", then whatever the other site sent back either wasn't XML at all or it did at least not contain an <error> tag.

So Geeklog doesn't know what to make of the response. It is therefore possible that the other site received the Trackback just fine (as seems to have happened in your case). Geeklog just couldn't tell what happened from the response.

If you want to debug things, find this piece of code in system/lib-trackback.php:
and add a after the fclose($sock);

The next time you get a "response not understood", check your error.log and see what the other site really sent back.

A proper response in case of a successfull Trackback would look like this:
bye, Dirk

Re: Trackback Comments

Posted on: 05/31/08 10:35am
By: Laugh

Thanks Dirk,

I will do that.

Tom

Re: Trackback Comments

Posted on: 06/02/08 04:55am
By: Verais

Tom, canit be due to the codding issues y ou brpwser send?