One of the nice side effects of the efforts towards fortifying
my weblog against comment spam and floods, is that I've invested
some time into logging of various unusual server conditions.
Initially, this was for forensics, but it has proven much more
useful than that.
My implementation of nonces is as files with unique file names
and a specific life expectancy. The contents of the file
turns out to be very handy place to stash debugging
information. Enough so, that I'm now issuing nonces for
non-security related events, and capturing things like stack
tracebacks, environment variables, and CGI parameters.
This morning, I received a trackback from
Kent
Tegels. Unfortunately, it appears that trackbacks from
.Text do not
contain excerpts. Pity that. But I checked the
spec, and can see no mention of this being required.
I've made a change so that I should be able to handle such
requests in the future. If somebody with a .Text weblog could
do me a favor and trackback this entry, I'd appreciate it.
Another oddity... the incoming trackback specified a URL of the form .../story/..., but apparently if one wishes to reciprocate with a trackback, one needs to look for a URL of the form .../posts/...
This is not a problem for me, as I was able to fall back to using PingBack.
Excerpt: # Sam Ruby's blog is a daily read for me. Normally for the content, but today, for the humor. "Welcome to Raleigh, North Carolina, where the official snow removal strategy is 'pray for sunshine.'"
Nova Spivack needs you at Radar Networks; Here is working on the next big thing here in Silicon Valley. Again, you are light years ahead of most ordinary csee plebians.