id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
14902	weblogUpdates.extendedPing does not implement standard	Scott Schram	josephscott	"When a blog post is published or updated, Update Services are notified if they are listed in the Wordpress Writing Settings panel.

The services are notified by the weblog_ping() function in comment.php

That function first attempts an XMLRPC call to the service's weblogUpdates.extendedPing.  If that fails, it attempts to notify weblogUpdates.ping.

if ( !$client->query('weblogUpdates.extendedPing', get_option('blogname'), $home, get_bloginfo('rss2_url') ) ) // then try a normal ping
	$client->query('weblogUpdates.ping', get_option('blogname'), $home);

'''1) The weblogUpdates.extendedPing does not match the published standard.'''

See: 

http://www.google.com/help/blogsearch/pinging_API.html

Where 5 parameters are specified:

* Name of site
* URL of site
* URL of the page to be checked for changes
* URL of RSS, RDF, or Atom feed
* Optional a name (or ""tag"") categorizing your site content. You may delimit multiple values by using the '|' character.

The third parameter should be the page to be checked for changes, and not the RSS feed.

No 4th or 5th parameter is passed.

'''2) The weblogUpdates.extendedPing does not take advantage of notifying the service of the exact page that changed (as is provided in the standard)'''

If implemented correctly, this would allow the receiving service (perhaps a search engine) to come directly to the correct page for re-indexing, instead of trying to figure it out from the RSS feed.

I am unable to find if pingomatic.com publishes a competing version of the standard.
"	defect (bug)	reviewing	normal	Awaiting Review	Pings/Trackbacks	3.0.1	normal		xmlrpc ping pingomatic