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Test post with Ecto

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I've used Ecto before with Roller (I bought a license), so I was a little surprised that Tim found a problem with it. He said that it was able to post, but it issues an error message RPC handler object "mt" not found, which indicates that perhaps Tim's Ecto is configured for Movable Type instead of plain old MetaWeblog API access.

Let's see if I can edit a post in place.

I'll post this now and then open it for editing... back in a sec.

Yep, that worked. However, something odd happened. When I opened up the post, my <p> tags were stripped out. I had to add them back in by hand. Hmmm.... an Ecto bug? But the re-post did work, in fact, when I clicked the Publish button Ecto popped up a dialog that asked "Old or New? This entry has been posted before. Should I submit a modification or create a new entry?"

Update: I was able to get Ecto to stop stripping my <p> tags by setting the "Convert line breaks in rich text mode" option.



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Glad to hear that. I noticed Bray's post, but there was no way to respond to his blog post, because I knew he should have configured his account for metaWeblog instead of MovableType API. If there are issues between ecto and your blog system, please drop me a line. Also, could you let me know the default access point for your blog system, so I can add it into ecto?

Posted by Adriaan Tijsseling on April 20, 2005 at 06:14 PM EDT #

Access point for Blogger/MetaWeblog in Roller is /roller/xmlrpc or if Roller is running at root then /xmlrpc.

Posted by Dave Johnson on April 20, 2005 at 06:35 PM EDT #

According to http://www.rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=UserGuide the port should be 8080, is that right? Btw, why are your math questions so hard? ;)

Posted by Adriaan Tijsseling on April 21, 2005 at 01:36 AM EDT #

Most people configure Roller for port 80. We use 8080 in the examples because that is the default port of Tomcat.

Posted by Dave Johnson on April 21, 2005 at 05:10 PM EDT #

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