boardom

[dang]

This is in large part the fault of Radio Userland, but it's also partly a b2 bug, so I figure I can post it in this forum.

The problem is that Radio Userland's trackback feature requires that the target blog support trackback auto-discovery. Now b2 does support that, but there are three problems:

1. The URL in b2's auto-discovery rdf (obtained through permalink_single()) is different from the regular permalink

But even if the Radio Userland user links using the permalink_single link (which there's no way for them to know even exists), it still will not recognize it, because:

2. It lacks the site's root URL, and

3. It contains ampersands that are entity-encoded.

#3 is probably Userland's fault, but I'm pretty sure #2 is b2's fault. (The Dublin Core spec states that the Identifier should be unambiguous.)

I solved this on my own site by normalizing the URL, and posting a note in the TrackBack box telling Radio Userland users to use the permalink_single URL.

A more elegant solution would certainly be welcome, however.