{"id":2501,"date":"2010-06-18T14:38:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T13:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2010-06-18T14:38:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T13:38:34","slug":"blogging-using-xml-rpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/blogging-using-xml-rpc\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging using XML-RPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bitzi\/228175875\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/80\/228175875_f2584d61ab_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bitzi\/228175875\/\">flickr typewriter typo?!<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/bitzi\/\">bitzi?<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been blogging using XML-RPC for years.<\/p>\n<p>In less technical terms, I&#8217;ve been blogging by finding a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?q=topic&#038;l=cc&#038;ss=2&#038;ct=6\">suitable photo on Flickr<\/a> and selecting &#8216;blog this&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This then generates a draft blog WordPress posting that I can polish off and post.<\/p>\n<p>However, when I <a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/2488\/\">migrated to eUKhost<\/a>, it suddenly stopped working.<\/p>\n<p>After wasting a lot of time digging into the problem, I realised that Flickr was getting a 404 error when sending a POST request to <tt>xmlrpc.php<\/tt>.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, there was nothing I could do myself, so I contacted eUKhost&#8217;s support, and they promptly created an exception for this file in mod_security, which was all it took for everything to be working beautifully again!<\/p>\n<p>It seems eUKhost are a bit paranoid about security (which can be a good thing!), but they&#8217;re also very prompt and helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>flickr typewriter typo?! Originally uploaded by bitzi? I&#8217;ve been blogging using XML-RPC for years. In less technical terms, I&#8217;ve been blogging by finding a suitable photo on Flickr and selecting &#8216;blog this&#8217;. This then generates a draft blog WordPress posting that I can polish off and post. However, when I migrated to eUKhost, it suddenly stopped working. After wasting a lot of time digging into the problem, I realised that Flickr was getting a 404 error when sending a POST request to xmlrpc.php. In other words, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,159,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-en","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}