Monthly Archive for July, 2009

NagiosPluginsNT 0.4.2

Published on 2009-07-30 in Programming. 0 Comments

I’ve just updated NagiosPluginsNT for the first time in a long time. I don’t really get to spend much time on this project anymore, since my current employer has moved away from Nagios.

SMTP Tester 1.2

Published on 2009-07-10 in Programming. 0 Comments

A bug fix version of SMTP Tester has been released.

FeedWordPress and HTTP Error 400

Published on 2009-07-02 in Wordpress. 0 Comments

So I’ve been toying with the idea of setting up WordPress to syndicate content from other sites I contribute to. Unfortunately, there seems to be a bug in the FeedWordPress plugin that prevents you from using feed URLs containing ampersands. Doing so results in an error like this:

Diagnostic information
 
HTTP request failure
 
400: Bad Request
 
HTTP Transports available:
 
    1. WP_Http_Fsockopen

Apparently, I’m not the only one who has encountered this issue, but I did discover a workaround. Just change all the ampersands in your feed URL to the HTML entity equivalent. Example:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/whatever/uploads?orderby=published&safeSearch=none

Becomes…

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/whatever/uploads?orderby=published&safeSearch=none