Debugging the MetaBlog API

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taz Posted: Wed, Jun 7 2006 3:37 PM

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Hi Guys,

I was trying to configure a blog editor like zoundry (I tried a few others too w.bloggar, blogjet, postxing) I get the error

"XmlRpc listblogs request failed: RpcPublishedError['blogger.getUsersBlogs' type:XMLRPC protocol error code -1 msg(http://...metablog.ashx)]

This has been bugging me for a couple of days now and I want to debug this.

Any thoughts guys?

I tried the request to http://...metablog.shx response was "Fiddler has detected a protocol violation in session #48"

Any thoughts guys?

Any thoughts what else I should do to debug this?

Thanks in advance

-Taz

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taz replied on Thu, Jun 8 2006 1:42 PM

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anybody?

I'll take any advice right now.

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Scott Watermasysk replied on Thu, Jun 8 2006 1:57 PM

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If you visit yoursite.com/blogs/metablog.ashx do you see anything in the browser?

-Scott

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taz replied on Fri, Jun 9 2006 8:46 AM

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Hi Scott,

Appreciate your response

Accessing the Page (http://www.tariqayad.com/blog/metablog.ashx) through Firefox shows

XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: http://www.tariqayad.com/blog/metablog.ashx
Line Number 1, Column 1:
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- Taz

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Scott Watermasysk replied on Fri, Jun 9 2006 9:06 AM

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The directory (unless you moved it) should be /blogs.

 However, both /blog and /blogs 404 on the request. Are you sure the file MetaBlog.ashx is on the server in the /blogs directory?

-Scott

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taz replied on Fri, Jun 9 2006 12:14 PM

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Yeah its there. 

I know you are going to ask this, so the only changes I did was to the themes.

Siteurls.config is the default, web.config is the default.

Do you think that the siteurls.config file could be corrupt but I dont know how it could affect it (I read somewhere else on the forum that the blogs directory isnt url rewritten)

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taz replied on Fri, Jun 9 2006 1:31 PM

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found out the problem, ISP decides to block ashx extentions and didnt inform me.

I am thinking of all sorts of names to call them now

- Tariq