Blosxom has a couple of plugins to ping
weblogs.com and
blo.gs when new entries are posted,
either via HTTP GET
or XML-RPC.
But these scripts have a problem; they run as synchronous plugins,
forcing whatever hapless user hits your blog first to wait while the
servers do their thing (or don't - weblogs.com is awfully slow
sometimes).
My little pinger.py script works a different way, running as a cron job periodically and checking if it needs to ping. Not robust; only recommended for Python hackers. |