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Shakes Fist at Sockets

My personal project of the last few days is to start chipping away at my moblogging app. Roland Tanglao and I have been talking since the Big Adventure in May about working together to get my mobile blogging app idea off the ground.

Basically, I know that if I can get a php script to post to this blog via the Atom or XML-RPC protocol, then I can get my mobile to do it via a python app. I have now spent more than 12 hours spread out over 2 days researching the various protocols, reading docs, and then trying to get several different php scripts to post a simple blog post to Movable Type 4.3's Atom or XML-RPC scripts.

Tonight, I kept getting errors that either the scripts aren't able to authenticate (both Atom & XML-RPC) or with XML-RPC I keep getting a "32300:transport error - could not open socket".

Darned sockets, I shake my fist at you.

3 Comments

Cheering you on. Perhaps one of the days, there will be an app allowing Nokia to moblog directly to Blogger, instead of using the email to blog ancient technology. :-p

Hi El!

Actually blogging from a Nokia to Blogger or WordPress is actually much easier, it is Movable Type that is a bit hard. The sockets problem may be a throttle placed on the server by my host.

But yes, give me a bit of time, and I will have a solution for all of us.

smiles, jen ;o)

marsedit and other blog editors also do xml-rpc and atom and marsedit does photos IIRC, if they work, then we should be able to get a python program working on your N900 to update your blog