Pingback module should be able to ping itself. It would be helpful for reader to follow node references. This is the same feature wordpress has.
Example:
You have created a story node a month ago and you were writing about drupal.
Today you are writing another entry and you refer to the last one by placing a link in your story.
Pingback should leave a comment in that old entry, the same way it leaves pingback comments on the other sites.

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Freso’s picture

Freso commented
Category: feature » bug
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

That is actually the current(ly expected) behaviour; there's even a feature to make this behaviour toggle-able: #216864: Don't ping your own site.

Have you tried it and found it didn't work?

Daniel S. Jackson’s picture

Daniel S. Jackson commented

I have the same problem. Pinging my own posts does not work. (newest version of the module, newest Drupal)

I'll have a look around and see if I find out something.

Daniel S. Jackson’s picture

Daniel S. Jackson commented

Found out what the problem was for me - pinging back to #comments or some other #anchor on your page isn't sent as a ping. Just created the link without the #anchor, published again and voila! A ping. Then I just edited it back again so it actually went to the right part of the node.

Would it be possible to discard #foo and try pinging the URL?

siliconmind’s picture

siliconmind commented

I've checked the pingback-to-myself behavior, and it works as you say... BUT ONLY when url inside anchor tag is full url (including domain). Relative urls wont trigger pingback,
In my opinion they should as relative urls are very common and practical. In fact i don't see any point in not pinging myself for relative urls. Is there any particular reason for that?

ps. I'm sorry it took me so long to respond.

Freso’s picture

Freso commented
Category: bug » feature
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

@ Daniel S. Jackson:
Does this happen with "external" links as well? If so, it would be great if you could file an issue/bug report. Actually, it would be great if you would do so either way, as it probably shouldn't do this on internal links either.

@ SiliconMind:
No reason that I know of. If you think it should be added, feel free to open a new issue/feature request about it (this one is already too full of comments on other, unrelated issues).

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.