[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #2933: Show messages from weblogUpdates.ping/extendedPing

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#2933: Show messages from weblogUpdates.ping/extendedPing
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 Reporter:  c960657      |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:           
Component:  XML-RPC      |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:           
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 When pinging update services like http://rpc.pingomatic.com/, any error
 message returned by the service is ignored.

 I run a weblog index like Weblogs.com, except that my index is only for
 weblogs written in Danish. In order to ping my site, users have to sign up
 in advance. When I receive a ping on my XML-RPC service, I verify that the
 site mentioned in the ping is subscribed to my service. If it isn't, I
 respond with an error message (flerror = true) as described in the
 weblogUpdate.ping specification, [http://www.xmlrpc.com/weblogsCom].
 However, Wordpress just drops this error message without letting the user
 know that shouldn't ping my site.

 This may not sound like a big problem, but it is for me. 99% of the pings
 I recieve are from users who are not registered and who are clearly not
 Danish so they are not eligible for inclusion in my index. They have
 probably got the URL for my ping service from lists like this http://www
 .instant-info-online.com/wordpress-compressed-all-inclusive-ping-list.html
 that they have blindly copy-pasted to the Wordpress installation without
 checking whether their pings are relevant on all the listed services. I
 currently have no way of asking these users to stop pinging my site.

 I would like Wordpress to show these error messages to the user, so that
 he can remove any services that reject his ping.

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