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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Halfway There...

I received an E-mail today from Blogger. They've agreed that my blog isn't a spam blog, but my entry screen still has the stupid spam blog CAPTCHA image which means that if it takes me longer than three minutes to write my entry, I have to re-enter the CAPTCHA again...

What a pain in the ass.

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posted by Michael Russell at 11/16/2006 05:46:00 PM | 0 Comments Links to this post | View blog reactions

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

The Feed Solution

Okay, feeds have been broken for most of the last 48 hours for most people. The reason that they were broken is that Blogger used to put the feeds in my root folder, but now they're placed in my blog folder. In addition, Blogger in Beta no longer creates an RSS feed by default...only Atom.

So the issue I had was two-fold. First, since I'm on a managed hosting solution, how to I redirect people from [root]/atom.xml to [root]/blog/atom.xml? Second, how to I get an RSS feed for people who can't use Atom?

I can't use redirect pages. Any blog service worth its salt wouldn't execute Javascript or meta tags in an HTML page that it gets instead of a proper XML document.

What I ended up doing for the short-term was deleting atom.xml and rss.xml from the root of my site and creating subdirectories there. Those subdirectories are actually ASP.NET applications whose default pages redirect people to the blog using Response.Redirect.

Now when you ask for /atom.xml, the site redirects you to /atom.xml/Default.aspx, which then redirects you to /blog/atom.xml. It's inefficient, but it takes advantage of the HTTP standard to get the job done.

Now I need to get back to work on finishing the Atom/RSS conversion helper, and find out why Blogger thinks I'm a spam blog...

Labels: Blogger

posted by Michael Russell at 11/14/2006 06:56:00 PM | 1 Comments Links to this post | View blog reactions

Feed Update

I've almost got the feeds working correctly again. Hopefully by tonight, everything will be working and if it is, I'll post the solution that I used.

Update 1: Technorati fixed, now working on Bloglines.

Update 2: Submitted a trouble ticket to Bloglines. Old blog link doesn't update anymore, REALLY old blog link hasn't updated in awhile. New feed is working, but everything is highly truncated. Someone else handles my feed on LiveJournal, so I can't fix that one.

Update 3: Everything should now be fixed via a hack.

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posted by Michael Russell at 11/14/2006 12:11:00 PM | 0 Comments Links to this post | View blog reactions

Monday, November 13, 2006

Feed Issues

Yes, I'm aware that the feed is broken at Technorati, Bloglines, LiveJournal, etc.

I'm working on a fix. I appreciate your patience.

Labels: Blogger

posted by Michael Russell at 11/13/2006 03:44:00 PM | 0 Comments Links to this post | View blog reactions

Blogger Beta

Please disregard this post. I moved over to the Blogger beta today, and this post is to make sure everything works correctly.

(Note: If you are seeing this, then this is finally working.)

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posted by Michael Russell at 11/13/2006 11:39:00 AM | 0 Comments Links to this post | View blog reactions

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