weblogs.com RPC error fix

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

Ping ‘https://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 ));