weblogs.com RPC error fix

You may have seen this error crop up in your movabletype blog:

Ping 'http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2' failed: HTTP error: 500 read timeout

I found plenty of sites through google where people were asking about this but nobody offered a solution that I saw. Well, I found a solution that was posted on the MT support forum just an hour or so ago:

movabletype.org : Support Forum

below is a unified diff so that you can patch your site. The patch seems to work most of the time, although I have had at least one of the same errors crop up. That could have been due to something else though.

--- XMLRPC.pm   Tue Feb 11 16:15:03 2003
+++ lib/MT/XMLRPC.pm  Fri May 23 16:29:04 2003
@@ -68,8 +68,12 @@
"HTTP error: [_1]", $res->status_line ));
}
my $content = $res->content;
-    my($error, $msg) = $content =~
-        m!flerror.*?(\d+).*message.*?(.+?)!s;
+# quick fix to weblogs.com RPC error in activity log.  See blog entry for details.
+#    my($error, $msg) = $content =~
+#        m!flerror.*?(\d+).*message.*?(.+?)!s;
+   my($error) = $content =~  m!flerror.*?(d+)!s;
+   my($msg) = $content =~  m!message.*?(.+?)!s;
+
if ($error) {
return $class->error(MT->translate(
"Ping error: [_1]", $msg ));