Re: ANN: RSS 'ping' interface at fyuze.com

["jdklub" <pseudonym@mindspring.com>]

--- In syndication@y..., "Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@h...> wrote:
> > I can help thinking that it might have been better to just use 
> >the
> > weblogs.com API. http://www.xmlrpc.com/weblogsCom
> 
> Indeed, does this interface not support enough of the 
> functionality? 

in theory, the weblogs.com api does provide the functionality that 
is needed. however, the weblogs.com api accepts the url of a site 
(http://somesite.com) whereas the API at fyuze accepts the RSS feed 
for a site (http://somesite.com/rss.xml). i wanted to minimize the 
confusion. 

also, the weblogs.com api accepts two parameters, one of which is 
the name of the site, which i don't need and have no use for. it 
would be a clunky fit, and if i ever need to expand the api in any 
way (though i don't how i would need to for the ping method) i'm 
free to do it without breaking an implementation of the weblogs.com 
api, or my api (since it uses a struct with named members, instead 
of ordered parameters).

i'm really just trying to minimize the confusion, and make it clear 
that it does not mirror the functionality of weblogs.com. (ie. don't 
ping it with your website url, ping it with your RSS url)