Issues posting to my WP blog using Ecto and MarsEdit

  • Resolved edie-howe

    (@edie-howe)


    16 years, 7 months ago

    I’m having some weird issues ever since upgrading to WP2.5. I get failure messages when I try to post to my blog (https://littleredtent.net/LRTblog) using either Ecto or MarsEdit on my Mac 10.4 machine.

    Error message from MarsEdit:
    Post to Weblog Error
    Can’t do post for (blog name) because the server reported an error. XML-RPC Response Parsing Failed: The XML parser could not parse the data.

    Error message from Ecto:
    Parsing Failure!
    Could not parse response for “metaWeblog.newPost”. Please check the console log for more information.
    Console Log has this to say:
    Response:

    <br />
<b>Fatal error</b>:  Call to undefined function: printr() in <b>/homepages/37/d224858424/htdocs/LRTblog/xmlrpc.php</b> on line <b>1080</b><br />

    This happens when I try either plain text or use any html tags.

    I am able to post from the admin console online just fine.

    A search here using “Parsing error call to undefined function” revealed nothing applicable.

    Thanks!

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  • I started getting this as well, with Ecto.

    The last time it happened, it was the WordPress.Net.In problem. I have been going over my wordpress files, but I can’t find anything like what happened the last time. The puzzling thing is I downloaded a new copy of WordPress 2.5 and put the new files in place that were suspect last time, and I am still getting a parse error.

    UPDATE : I finally did find a discrepancy between my XMLRPC.PHP file and a brand new one downloaded from WordPress.

    The WordPress Copy, Line 10 :
    $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = trim($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA);

    My copy, Line 10 :
    $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = mysql_escape_string(trim($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA));

    And guess what? I replaced my XMLRPC.PHP with the fresh copy, and no more parse errors in Ecto, at least for me. Your mileage may vary, but I would appreciate hearing if it worked for anyone else.

    Same problem, same solution

    Thread Starter edie-howe

    (@edie-howe)

    Replaced XMLRPC.PHP with the version found in 2.5.1 (deleted the old one on my webspace via ftp first) with success. Looks like we have resolution, Houston. Much thanks, MacGeek.

    Edie

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