posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:26 AM
by
kevdaly
Diarist and MetaWeblog for MSN Spaces
Update 11:08 pm - the problem below did recur - it looks very much like the Harrier decided I was using a local network connection, so I set my local network settings to also be Telecom CDMA, and that seems to have taken care of it. I'll keep testing for another day or two to make sure.
The blogging API for MSN Spaces went live today (-ish...depending on your time zone).
I naturally tested it with Diarist - there was a bug I had to correct before the SSL would work (actually it was a bug in CF 1.0, but it requires a workaround). It looks as if everything's OK...for a while I was getting errors trying to connect from my Harrier (just saying it couldn't connect to the remote server), but I'm not getting them now so unless there's a recurrence I'll put it down to "transient network conditions" (TNC, if you must).
Other than those initial hiccups (and with my fingers crossed against a recurrence of the last) I'm quite pleased: things like dates and categories that often have issues worked perfectly right away.
In addition to fixing the SSL issue, I've also changed the default address for Blogger via Atom to be https (they seem to have finally got around to requiring that while I wasn't looking), and to avoid too much inconvenience with changes like that in future I've made API addresses that default (such as Blogger) editable.
In addition I've added a menu option for MSN Spaces, so people won't have to key in the address.
I'll make the Spaces-friendly version available as soon as it's fully tested and I'm confident it won't suddenly fall over, but for the next week or two you'll have to ask me for a copy via the Contact form and I'll email you the CAB file - the plug gets pulled on my free hosting on www.aspxconnection.com tomorrow, so there won't be anywhere to download from until I've made alternative arrangements (as soon as possible).
For the same reason I've removed the download links and images from some of the posts I've made here, since they were linked to the same site.
When my hosting is taken care of I'll tidy up and republish some of the better ones as proper articles on the new site.