I appreciate the fact that trackback.module will automatically seek out the proper URLs to ping when I hit somebody's blog post. But it seems a bit ... aggressive. If I just embed a link to somebody's blog in the type, then trackback will go to that blog, find something, and ping it. Is there some way to make it a little less aggressive?

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media girl’s picture

media girl commented
Priority: Normal » Critical

This is a serious bug in that it ends up randomly pinging a site. If you trackback to a specific post, that still gets a trackback ping ... but so does the latest post on the site, which has nothing to do with the relevant post.

As this was added as a patch some months ago, could it be removed from the 4.5 module? Or at least have a toggle checkbox setting so that it can be disabled? /hopeful plea

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Zed Pobre commented

This causes an additional issue as well -- editing a post will cause trackbacks to be sent multiple times.

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Zed Pobre commented

The version currently in CVS seems to allow you to turn off autodetection completely. I don't know if the algorithm was improved to fix the core issues, however.

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ankur commented

Please update to the last version of trackback in the cvs that was tagged for Drupal 4.5:

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/trackback/?on...

You can also wait for 4.6, which will be coming soon...

-Ankur