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Metablog API broken?

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vw000's avatar
vw000
241 posts
5 years ago
vw000's avatar vw000

I don’t think the Metaweblog API module works on the latest version.

It’s impossible to register with MS WORD for example (latest Office 365 version). If I tried to load the API URL it also complains about an error in the XML response.

Something seems wrong or broken. It worked fine in the previous versions.

       
Robin Sowell's avatar
Robin Sowell
13,158 posts
5 years ago
Robin Sowell's avatar Robin Sowell

What is the XML response? That might give us a good idea as to what’s up? And what version were you on when it was working?

       
vw000's avatar
vw000
241 posts
5 years ago
vw000's avatar vw000

When I open the URL on my browser I get the following result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodResponse>
<fault>
 <value>
  <struct>
   <member>
    <name>faultCode</name>
    <value><int>105</int></value>
   </member>
   <member>
    <name>faultString</name>
    <value><string>XML error: Invalid document end at line 1</string></value>
   </member>
  </struct>
 </value>
</fault>
</methodResponse>

I was on EE version 3 before upgrading to the latest release. I deleted the accounts from Word and tried to re-add them using the same settings and it will not even allow me to register them back failing with an error and that I should contact my Metablog service provider.

       
vw000's avatar
vw000
241 posts
4 years ago
vw000's avatar vw000

Any news about this? I would really like to be able to post to the blog again from Microsoft Word.

Strangely, there also seems to be no instructions about how to setup the Metablog API. I remember setting this up because I found it in some blog that had ExpressionEngine tutorials.

       
vw000's avatar
vw000
241 posts
4 years ago
vw000's avatar vw000

It’s now 3 months and we cannot publish in the blog.

How hard can it be to just fix this? Why is EE offering a module that is broken and does not work anymore…?

This would not be such a big issue if there was another way to publish from MS Word, but this protocol (even while not the best one for blogs) is the only one officially supported or was since it does not work anymore. Other CMS multiple ones.

This and almost no third party addons that work with EE anymore is seriously making me consider moving to something more robust and supported. What good is a CMS on which I cannot even blog…that was once the main purpose of why people implemented Expression Engine, blogging. And now not even this is possible.

       
vw000's avatar
vw000
241 posts
4 years ago
vw000's avatar vw000

I downloaded another blog software that also supports the Metaweblog API and it does not work either.

I get Error 802 invalid access.

2 different apps, both do not work. This confirms its the Expression Engine module that is not working. Please remove this module from your documentations and software since its not work for 2 years now.

       

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