Hunting The Muse

TrackBack up a bit please?

TrackBack Development So, I'm trying to learn about TrackBack and PingBack. I was about ready to understand it, but then they had to spring these other things on me like TrackForward and TrackBackAndForth. Jerks. Anyway, what I'm missing is a good high-level technical description. I've got the high-level "It lets you see who links to you!" and the low-level "just put a trackback client together with a trackback server and click the trackback ping url from the source on the client to the server and the client tracks the server which pings the client but please use post and not get!" but (cough) I still don't know what the hell is going on. Probably because I've thought too hard about other things today.

I guess what I want to know is how to use it. If I have a blog with trackback links at the bottom of every entry, does that mean I'll know about every blog linking to me, or just the ones that bother to jump through hoops?

Ah, I'm being lazy; I'll study it more another time. Irrelevant if I'm using blogger anyway, I suspect. Posted by Curt at January 7, 2003 02:28 AM