link to timonator's patch

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / todo / pingback_support.mdwn

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@@ -28,9 +28,14 @@ case I will consider this done with an entry in [[tips]]; otherwise a
 > would be subject to the usual comment filtering (ie, blogspam) and
 > moderation and would then show up amoung the other, regular comments on
 > the page.
+>
+> (One wrinkle: would need to guard against duplicate pings. Maybe by
+> checking existing comments for any that have the same url?)
 > 
 > As for sending trackbacks and pingbacks, this could fairly easily be
 > implemented using a `editcontent` hook. Since this hook is called
 > whenever a page is posted or edited, and gets the changed content, it can
 > simply scan it for urls (may have to htmlize first?), and send pings to
 > all urls found. --[[Joey]] 
+
+>> Is there any update on this? This would be highly useful and is the main reason why I am not using my blog more regularly, yet. (And yes, now that git-annex is doing everything I need and more, I thought I should revisit this one, as well). -- RichiH