So, I wanted to post some trackbacks to blogs.apachecon.com and, well, I don't use a fancy blog entry editor thing which can do trackbacks for me. In case anyone else is in the same situation, here is a little command line tool for posting trackbacks: trackback. Unlike the actual spec, all fields are required for this client, sorry, is 10 minutes of coding between sessions =)
brianm@kite:~$ trackback -h
Usage: trackback [options] excerpt
Options:
-b, --trackback-url VALUE The url to post the trackback to
-u, --url VALUE URL of the response post
-n, --blog_name VALUE The blog name for the trackback
-t, --title VALUE Show or hide result url in output
-h, --help Show this message
brianm@kite:~$
If you don't specify a part on the command line it will prompt you for it -- should be friendly enough.
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Online form
Or you could just use an online trackback sender like this one: http://www.reedmaniac.com/scripts/trackback_form.php
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