Webmentions

[Michael Bishop]

Just came across this and was curious if it is something that has been discussed in adding/changing in Habari

http://indiewebcamp.com/webmention

"WebMention is a modern reimplementation of Pingback using only HTTP and x-www-urlencoded content rather than XMLRPC requests. WebMention supersedes Pingback."

[Christopher Davis]

I have looked at it, and it does look interesting. I think the "spec" is still in flow though. 

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[Chris Meller]

Looking at the spec at webmention.org, it looks *exactly* like a Pingback, except they use a regular x-www-urlencoded POST instead of XML-RPC.

The main objection of the (rather snarky and off-putting) Indie Web Camp page is that they don't like XML-RPC (it "is deadend tech"). I'm not really a fan either, but it's already implemented everywhere. New for the sake of being new isn't really appealing to me. Is there anything that makes WebMention stand out that I'm missing?

[Owen Winkler]

Without web of trust (which can be implemented on top of XML-RPC, too) or some other spam-prevention mechanism (no, Akismet is not even sufficient) this technology is just a crappier version of the original spam-abused pingback. Does anyone actually use pingback for things other than spam these days?

[Michael Bishop]

Fair enough. As I said, stumbled upon it, saw a few people I respect were implementing it and thought I'd ask if anyone had looked at it.

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Owen Winkler <epi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Without web of trust (which can be implemented on top of XML-RPC, too) or some other spam-prevention mechanism (no, Akismet is not even sufficient) this technology is just a crappier version of the original spam-abused pingback. Does anyone actually use pingback for things other than spam these days?

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