July 11, 2004

HELP! I'm Confused

OK - I give up. I've been trying and trying to "ping" the sites that I link to and all I ever get is this error:

Ping 'http://to what ever site I link to' failed: HTTP error: 501 Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported

This is what I'm doing. I go to the post and copy the trackback code, then I paste it in my nifty little "ping box". Error after error after error - and it never ever pings. I've even tried the link back to the post itself and NOTHING but that damned message. I've read the handy dandy instructions that come with MT and I still can't get it to work.

Anyone out there that can give me "elementary, step by step, no fancy words" instructions on how to do this?!?!?!

I would be very grateful.

Posted by Tammi at July 11, 2004 06:49 AM
Comments

Don't copy the trackback code. Copy the link itself. You know....the permalink. THAT'S the code you need. And it's already in your post, it should ping on its own. If it doesn't, don't feel bad. Several sites I visit don't take my pings.

Posted by: Da Goddess at July 11, 2004 08:56 PM

Well that seems easy enough - why don't they just SAY that. ;)

Thank you my dear - yet another reason you ARE Da Goddess!!

Posted by: Tammi at July 12, 2004 03:18 AM