How does this trackback thingy work?
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incinerator
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
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Tuesday 14 February 2006 11:52:45 pm
How does this trackback thingy work?
When posting a weblog entry, you get this "post trackbacks to URL..." option. How would that work? What URL should I type in?
Regards,
Dominik
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maffulli
Location: Milan, Italy
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Thursday 16 February 2006 8:48:51 am
Re: How does this trackback thingy work?
Basically you should put in the trackback field the URI of the other blog you are commenting about.
From wikipedia:
TrackBack is a mechanism used in a blog to show, around an entry, a list of other blogs that refer to it.
The term TrackBack was introduced by Six Apart which introduced a mechanism (although the functionality was present in the HTTP specification as early as 1992) in their blogging server, Movable Type, that works by sending a 'ping' between the blogs, and therefore providing the alert. The blog receiving the ping typically displays the TrackBack information below a blog entry. This usually includes a summary of what has been written on the target blog, together with a URL and the name of the blog. The Referer field in the HTTP protocol was originally intended as a means of supporting features similar to those TrackBack offers.
To receive trackbacks you can use as URI the URI of the blog entry of this site.
HTH
stef
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incinerator
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
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Thursday 16 February 2006 11:41:06 am
Re: How does this trackback thingy work?
excellent, now I've got a clue. Thx a lot.
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