[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20226: Don't advertise pingback URL on resources that don't support pingbacks

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#20226: Don't advertise pingback URL on resources that don't support pingbacks
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 Reporter:  solarissmoke      |       Owner:  wonderboymusic
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  4.4
Component:  Pings/Trackbacks  |     Version:  3.3
 Severity:  minor             |  Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  has-patch         |     Focuses:  template
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Comment (by nacin):

 I guarantee that this will break the situation where someone is checking
 the homepage to see if it's up/working/WordPress by looking for
 X-Pingback. They're also probably doing the same for <link>. I don't
 necessarily care either way. @dd32, does this all look kosher to you?

 I don't think this is to prevent pingback spam. I imagine it's just for
 sanity purposes. But I'm not convinced this will make things any better.
 All it does is add another check to themes (when we could probably stand
 to remove it and use X-Pingback only).

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