HTML tag names appearing in text (XMLRPC posting)

  • I post to my WP blog with mtsend.py (https://scott.yang.id.au/2002/12/mtsendpy/), which is a little old and doesn’t seem to be actively maintained, but has worked fine for me for years.

    As of this morning, any posts I make that way will appear with the angle brackets stripped off the HTML tags, like this:

    pHere is my first line/ppThis should be a whole bnew/b paragraph/p

    I had not changed anything about mtsend.py or my WP installation since the last correct post; I upgraded WP from 2.5 to 2.6 this evening, and the behavior didn’t change.

    Posts made from the WP dashboard work normally. I’ve looked in MySQL and the posts are wrong there, too (i.e. the problem is somewhere in post submission, not in rendering them for display). I don’t know where to look next. Any thoughts?

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  • Any resolution to this? After upgrading to 2.6.2 I’m now experiencing the same issue. I can confirm that it behaves this way using multiple clients (BlogJet and Live Writer) and using multiple API formats (WordPress, Blogger, Movable Type).

    Definitely a problem with how xmlrpc processes posts as it works fine in the web-based editor. I do not have this problem using the same client (BlogJet) on any other blogs that are still running pre-2.6.2.

    Yeah, I’m seeing it too. Seems to have manifested after upgrading to 2.6.2. Anything that uses the XML-RPC api is effected (including iPhone WordPress app).

    FWIW: I just submitted ticket 7771 (https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/7771) to trac … dunno if it’s a dupe, but I’m sure they’ll tell me if it is.

    Anonymous User 803480

    (@anonymized-803480)

    Are you running selfhosted blogs? I’ve got the same problem after upgrading to latest libxml2…

    Are you running selfhosted blogs?

    Yes.

    libxml2 was recently updated in Fedora 9 … although I also upgraded to 2.6.2 around the same time.

    Yup I’m having the exact same problem after my upgrade to 2.6.2.

    I’m having the same problem.
    WordPress 2.7 (at home)
    scribefire (over xmlrpc i believe).
    Same problem when trying to post to blog from flickr
    same thing from iphone….

    my server is a mac running leopard, so it’s not the fedora bug others are noticing

    Thanks!

    Tom:

    Do you know what version of libxml2 you’re system is using?

    david

    I’m having the same problem, WordPress 2.7 …

    Looks like my server is using the following:

    XML::LibXML 1.66
    XML::LibXML::Common 0.13
    XML::NamespaceSupport 1.09
    XML::Parser 2.34
    XML::SAX 0.96
    XML::SAX::Expat 0.40
    XML::Simple 2.18
    XML::Writer 0.604

    I just grabbed all the XML Perl modules that they list …

    I can confirm this. I didn’t notice it until I went to version 2.7.

    I don’t know how to easily tell what version of the above files that I’m using but I did update WordPress and Fedora right around the same time.

    I just grabbed all the XML Perl modules that they list …

    Perl modules don’t really apply here … as wordpress runs in PHP.

    david

    Perl modules don’t really apply here … as wordpress runs in PHP.

    Hehe, also true ??

    Anonymous User 803480

    (@anonymized-803480)

    I don’t know how to easily tell what version of the above files that I’m using but I did update WordPress and Fedora right around the same time.

    To show which libxml2 currently installed on machine, run

    root@www tmp]# yum list|grep -i libxml

    And you will get one or more lines but atleast one should be libxml2 with a version to the right…

    libxml2.i386 2.6.27-1 installed

    without worrying about libxml2 version , you can fix it adding some changes to wordpress ,this changes may apply to future release wordpress?

    see the workaround solution for this wordpress XMLRPC posting problem fix

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