In the previous versions, there was an issue when your hostname already had the http:// prefix. The code has now been updated to check for that and not prepend http:// to the URL for the XML-RPC endpoint.

MovablePoster was originally developed against an IIS server, and *should* work. Since then, I have moved switched hosts to another hosting company which utilizes Linux.

I will reinstall a test blog on an IIS machine at home, and see if I can reproduce your errors.

Thanks for your patience…

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Matt

I’m not sure where the proper place to talk about MovablePoster issues is, so please feel free to send me to a more appropriate venue…

I’m running MT 2.63, under IIS 5. I’ve had “mixed luck” with various blog posting utilities — w.Bloggar works, Zempt does not, and Kung-Log (under OS-X) did not until I made some changes to Movable Type’s XML-RPC suggested by the Zempt crew. These changes fixed Kung-Log, but not Zempt.

In both cases (Kung-Log originally, and Zempt to-date), the failure came when the program attempted to log in and get a list of blogs.

I seem to be seeing the same problem in MovablePoster 1.0.1.2 — I go into Configure, and enter my username, password, the url for the site (port 80 and the Endpoint path are fine as defaults). When I click on “Select New…” however, it goes away for 45 seconds or so, and comes back with “Unable to retreive a list of blogs at http://www.nonliteral.com. Please make sure your configuration information is correct and try again”.

Any thoughts on how I might get around this? I really like the idea of being able to use Outlook to generate posts…

Thanks!

- Chuck

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