Brute force in Movable Type trackback pings?
Ironically, Movable Type exhibited brute force while publishing last night’s post. It claimed it received an 500 error while pinging other’s trackback URLs. Not thinking it had actually worked, I tried again a little bit later. Little did I know, it actually had worked causing the trackback to be posted multiple times. How annoying. Now, I suppose I could or should have checked for my trackback post by hand. However, Movable Type should be well-written elegant blogging software wihtout issues like this. Likewise, the blog receiving the trackback ping might have improperly formulated its response, (which I believe was also Movable Type). I’ve ignored all the noise about their new licensing recently because I’ve never been terribly pleased with the software to be. This gives me another very good reason to ditch it.
