To download or not to download?
Since some WordPress plugins cause XML-RPC problems when posts are actually published, we would like to give you an option to soften the error control.
For this I need the following information:
1. Which error codes (503? 102?) are produced when BAP publishes the posts but says it’s been an XML-RPC error?
2. If to turn off the XML-RPC error control at all, we would like to still check somehow else that at least Internet connection exists.
For this now we download the blog page (i.e. for each blog before we publish to it, we download its main page to see if Internet connection exists). But it’s not guaranteed to work always: some Internet providers, when a cable/DSL connection is established, but not dialed up to the provider, provide their HTML page, and we can’t verify if it’s the blog page or the provider’s page.
Why do we do this and not just download some short file from our server content of which would be known to us? Because for someone who would look at where the program connects, it would show that for some reason we go to our server every time the program publishes to their blog.
And from this probably not long to go to think it’s kind of spying. :)
But on the other hand, IF now we soften or turn off the XML-RPC error checking, AND such provider’s page is downloaded instead of the blog page, then when there is no “real” internet connection, BAP will discard every post scheduled to that time, thinking it’s published successfully (and will never attempt to publish these posts again)!
So, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS?
Do you think this spying thing is just being paranoid? :)
Thank you for the cooperation,
Olga.