How to test if my pingback was successful?

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I'm currently writing the pinging-back code of a blogging platform. Pingbacks work at localhost, but I want to test if they work when pinging a 3rd-party service. Is there any website or any other solution which will show me once it received a pingback from me?

Thanks.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '09 at 10:30

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You can create a blog account on a free blogging service (like blogger.com) and test your pingback implementation.

answered Sep 09 '09 at 10:30

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I think that doesn't work. I believe those types of blogs accept trackbacks only, which differs in format from pingbacks. – Moayad Mardini Sep 09 '09 at 15:45

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '09 at 18:17

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Both http://www.typepad.com/ and http://wordpress.com/ support pingbacks and can be used for free.

answered Sep 10 '09 at 18:17

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 31 '12 at 00:00

There is a "pingbacktest" wordpress blog that accepts pingbacks:

http://pingbacktest.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/hello-world/

If you send a pingback with some URL that links to it, you'll get

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodResponse>
  <params>
    <param>
      <value>
      <string>Pingback from http://foo to http://pingbacktest.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/hello-world/ registered. Keep the web talking! :-)</string>
      </value>
    </param>
  </params>
</methodResponse>

How to test if my pingback was successful?

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