[ROL-1275] Support pingbacks

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Component/s: Pings and Trackbacks
• Customer(s): blogs.sun.com
• Level of effort: 3 days or maybe more depending on issues
• Assignee: Roller Unassigned
• Reporter: David Johnson
• Created: 13/Oct/06 14:28
• Updated: 13/Jul/14 16:10
• Resolved: 13/Jul/14 16:10

Description

Sending trackbacks is a very good way to join a cross-blog conversation and get links back to your blog, but it's difficult to figure out how to send a trackback. We can make it easier. Some blog servers send trackbacks automatically and Roller should be able to do the same. Here's how it could work:

• Blogger creates a blog entry
• Blogger hits publish button to publish blog entry
• Roller parses the blog entry looking for links
• For each link found:
• Roller parses page that is linked to
• If page has trackback autodiscovery, then Roller sends trackback to the page's trackback URL

Isses:

• What about entries that are posted to the future?
• Do we need a trackbackout table to keep track of sent and pending trackbacks?