Joseph Scott

You can always get a copy of xmlrpc.php from the Subversion repository (https://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/), each release of WordPress gets a tag in the repository (https://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/). The latest release is 2.6.2, and you can get the xmlrpc.php file for that release at https://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.6.2/xmlrpc.php

As for the changes in your files, something/someone is doing it. There are a number of filesystem auditing tools (like tripwire) that can monitor for changes and help you pin down what is going on.

What’s the URL for your blog? It would also be helpful to see exactly what the errors are.

A number of fixes have gone into the app, hopefully a new version will be available at the store soon.

A few people have reported this (see ticket: https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/7771). So far I have been unable to duplicate this on either 2.6.2 or -trunk.

Having you tried comparing it to a fresh copy of wp-includes/class-IXR.php ? Looks like you are using WP 2.6.1, an original of that file is at:

https://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.6.1/wp-includes/class-IXR.php

I asked for more detail on the server side about this and you never replied.

When a server return a 500 error it usually means it got the response, but there was an error trying to process it. Without more details about what that error is it’s hard to pin down what went wrong.

Does the web server have any thing in the error logs?

For now the best resources for this is the original trac ticket: https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/5148#comment:4

and the thread on the wp-xmlrpc email list:

https://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-xmlrpc/2007-November/thread.html#103

I recommend not disabling these. The RSD link is used by blog clients for discovery of the XML-RPC API end point. Removing will cause problems for many other blog clients, not just Windows Live Writer users.

@enq1981 –

The field is called mt_keywords, in the metaWeblog.newPost call. There’s some history in ticket #900 https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/900

If you are interested in WordPress & XML-RPC I recommend joining the wp-xmlrpc email list: https://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-xmlrpc/

If you are up to it you can help debug by using the iPhone SDK, grabbing the source code to the app and trying it out on the iPhone simulator (which comes with the SDK). I then use HTTP Scoop to watch the requests that the simulator makes to see where exactly it’s failing and what the error is in the SDK console.

There are a couple of different common failure points that I’ve been observing with problem blogs, and we are still trying to pin down what exactly the error is and how to best fix it.

We’ve had a few bug reports on blogs not setting up correctly. We’re still trying to pin down the exact cause, one item that still might be suspect is language. Any of you using a non-English setting?

Can you post the raw XML-RPC request to see if there’s something else odd about the request?

I haven’t been able to reproduce problems with a stock 2.6 install.

The theme doesn’t show post titles, since they are just generated from the first bit of the post anyway.