Follow action & Bad URLs

[Moses]

Are the Drop Out urls from Like suppose to redirect to a RSS page?

[Moses]

update?

[martin@rootjazz]

Issue still on the todo list, after my last reply have been offline whilst moving house, only just got back online in the last hour. Catching up on all emails / forum posts, then back on with the todo list.

As to:

Are the Drop Out urls from Like suppose to redirect to a RSS page?

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Can you explain please

[Moses]

This url from the Like action for example redirects an rss page

DROP OUT: No posts found on: http://saint71270.tumblr.com/rss

So should the Drop Out urls from Like actions redirect to a RSS page? ID: 20774

[martin@rootjazz]

Ah ok. You are instructing the Like Post module to like blog. So the code tries to pull the RSS feed of the blog you have entered to find a random recent post. In this instance, no posts found.

Hence the RSS feed URL is showing.

When dropping out the routine due to no posts found, this should skip as it is a known reason for not processing this item. Will add that now

[Moses]

I believe I added a check so that one an error occurs, if it was a 404 it is skipped, as that is a known error and can be skipped safely.

Don't forgot about adding this for 404 errors too thanks

[martin@rootjazz]

Code should be detecting this anyway and skipping

[Moses]

this should skip as it is a known reason for not processing this item. Will add that now

Do you mean the Like post model will save blogs that don't have any posts then skip them on future runs?

If so, what if the blog the begins to create new posts, wouldn't they get skipped as they are in a skip list?

[martin@rootjazz]

no, there is not "skip" log. Perhaps in the future this blog will have posts. I mean that in the list you have provided, this item is ignored, this "skips" the pause.

TJ works with the lists *YOU* feed in. IF you keep feeding in blogs that are empty, TJ will keep processing them, because it assumes you want to process them as you have included them in the list.

If I start to try and add clever features to skip items you don't want to process even though you include them in the list, invariably I will get it wrong in some cases and skip items for some users who want to retest certain items.

The onus is on you the user to feed in a list of items you want to *attempt* to process. Feed in bad / empty data, then it will be processed. This is by design and in my opinion correct. The program is a tool and will process what you tell it to.

[Moses]

Didn't get update