Blogging Roller

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.