Ping (blogging)

This article is about the web publishing mechanism. For notifications to a user, see Mention (blogging). For the network test tool, see Ping (networking utility).

In blogging, a ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated.[1] An XML-RPC signal is sent from the weblog to one or more Ping servers, as specified by originating weblog), to notify a list of their "Services" of new content on the weblog.

A ping server may notify multiple services when pinged;[2]

  1. ^ Winer, Dave (30 September 2001). "Weblogs.Com XML-RPC interface". 1998.xmlrpc.com. Archived from the original on 2004-10-19. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
  2. ^ Marchuk, Serge. "AllStuffWeb.com - What Websites does a Ping Service Ping". allstuffweb.com. Archived from the original on 2014-01-31. Retrieved 2014-01-03.