UPDATE to "The How To -> Quickly Ping Any Open Page In Seconds! Time Saver Tip/Trick!"

JohnS · 10-16-2009, 09:30 AM

Yesterday I stumbled across the excellent pinging tip over in the thread:

The How To -> Quickly Ping Any Open Page In Seconds! Time Saver Tip/Trick!

However, I'm not sure if something has changed over at Ping-O-Matic, but I found that it kept giving me an error while pinging pages with titles containing certain characters (apostrophes, backslashes, etc.). I have updated the code to strip out all non-alphanumeric characters from the title using Javascript regexp replacement, and it seems to be working perfectly now:

Code:

javascript:location.href='http ://pingomatic.com/ping/?title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title.replace(/[^a-zA-Z 0-9]+/g,''))+'&blogurl='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&chk_weblogscom=on&chk_blogs=on&chk_technorati=on&chk_feedburner=on&chk_syndic8=on&chk_newsgator=on&chk_myyahoo=on&chk_pubsubcom=on&chk_blogdigger=on&chk_blogrolling=on&chk_blogstreet=on&chk_moreover=on&chk_weblogalot=on&chk_icerocket=on&chk_newsisfree=on&chk_topicexchange=on&chk_google=on&chk_tailrank=on&chk_bloglines=on&chk_aiderss=on&chk_skygrid=on&chk_audioweblogs=on&chk_rubhub=on&chk_geourl=on&chk_a2b=on&chk_blogshares=on'

Remove the space after the http (my post count was not high enough to post it as a url).

I hope this helps anyone who was having a similar problem. The error I kept getting from Ping-O-Matic was:

Quote:

Whoops!

There was a small systems error. Please try refreshing the page and if the error is still there drop us a note and let us know.

JohnHuizinga · 10-16-2009, 12:42 PM

I've been getting that error occasionally the last couple of days.
However I've laso noticed that refreshing the page (F5) seems to make it go through the second time.

JohnS · 10-20-2009, 02:32 PM

I noticed that too. It seems like the same error is coming up either timeout issues, or a special character in the title.

Usually I could get the timeout issues to go away by refreshing/resubmitting, but with certain characters in the title, the error would never go away.

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10-20-2009, 02:32 PM	#3
JohnS Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: USA Posts: 27 Thanks: 2 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Re: UPDATE to "The How To -> Quickly Ping Any Open Page In Seconds! Time Saver Tip/Trick!" I noticed that too. It seems like the same error is coming up either timeout issues, or a special character in the title. Usually I could get the timeout issues to go away by refreshing/resubmitting, but with certain characters in the title, the error would never go away.