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Ping service Related:
Ping.livepress.com is a custom pinging service used to automatically inform LivePress when you update your site with new content. The service receives notification (a "ping") from your site that you have added new content, if everything is as planned, ping.livepress.com adds your site to a list of recently changed blogs. If you're not currently using software that pings us, or if you're looking for more information on how to ping, this page will help you get your ping client working.

Name:
URL:
Check URL:
RSS URL:

Do you maintain your own log which doesn't already ping this site? Ping the site manually here.

Would you like to utilize automatic pinging into your software? See the instructions below.

Instructions of how to ping programatically: there are three basic ways to ping this site automatically when you update your website. The third method is the preferred method.

1. Load http://ping.livepress.com/?name=sitee&url=http://site.com/. It will redirect back to this page (unless the direct parameter, explained below, is used). If the ping was successful, the redirect will include "state=success" in the url. The full list of parameters that are understood:

  • name: The name of the site
  • url: The url of the site
  • checkUrl: (optional) The url to be checked for the blog status (useful when your site uses frames, so you can direct users to the frameset, but tell this site to check the correct frame for updates.)
  • rssUrl:(optional) The url of the blogs corresponding rss or atom feed
  • direct: (optional) If set to anything other than zero, then the response will have either the text 'Thanks for the ping' or a message explaining the failure.

2. Use the livepressUpdates.ping xml-rpc interface (http://www.xmlrpc.com/) at http://ping.livepress.com/RPC2.php.

3. Use the livepressUpdates.extendedPing xml-rpc call at http://ping.livepress.com/RPC2.php. This is just like livepressUpdates.ping but it takes 2 more string parameters for the checkUrl and rssUrl.

Note: We save the value of the checkUrl and rssUrl, so you can easily use the form above or an extended ping once, and then continue to use the basic ping.livepress.com-style ping for future updates.

Note: You must be sure to use the correct Host: header is included in your request when using any of these three methods. Once you use the form here to ping your website (try xml-rpc interface), updates from any and all other sources will be ignored for the next 3 days.