I successfully did a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) test with weblogs.com. Wahoo! I was missing some XML headers on previous attempts.
I'm not using Microsoft's SOAP Toolkit... I'm simply formatting the SOAP message myself and sending using the XMLHTTP objects.
This is good. I think that I'll spend a few minutes tonight adding this to joereger.com to test for a while before adding it to qlogger.
I'm also a little concerned about the time that it takes to send the message and recieve it. I initially wanted to tie it directly to the log entry submission process but I may have to write some sort of behind-the-scenes process to poll for new entries to send to weblogs.com. The issue with this plan is that I'd have to poll rather frequently because people will expect to see their entry quickly on weblogs.com. It'd have to be something like every one or two minutes. Plus, I don't like running behind-the-scenes stuff because they have an uncanny ability to leak memory and become a pain in the butt. I know that I'll have to make some functions batched as the site grows, but I'd rather do that later rather than sooner.
SufferFest 08 Day 4
