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we need to allow for a ping system for iTunes after each new media is posted to the podcast. this will keep iTunes up to date. thanks

How will that work exactly? Right now, we have a plugin that automatically publishes the podcast. We can incorporate a "ping" method however.

I have limited understanding of podcasts in general (Tom is the brains behind the podcasting feature), so can you elaborate on this a little bit, and I can see if its doable.

This is the info from Apple on updating a podcast:

If you need to request that iTunes update information about your podcast immediately, you can ping the iTunes server in one of two ways: using an XML POST or by entering a URL in a browser.

The XML POST should be addressed to phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast and formatted as follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<methodCall>

<methodName>weblogUpdates.ping</methodName>

<params>

<param>

<value>PODCAST_NAME</value>

</param>

<param>

<value>FEEDURL/</value>

</param>

</params>

</methodCall>

where PODCAST_NAME is the title of the podcast, exactly as it appears in the <title> tag, and FEEDURL is your podcast feed URL.

You can also ping the iTunes server to update your podcast information by entering the following URL into a browser:

phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.wo...ingPodcast?id=FEEDID

where FEEDID is your iTunes podcast numeric ID. You can also use:

phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.wo...edURL=http://FEEDURL

where FEEDURL is the url for your feed.

Regardless of the ping method you use, iTunes will return an HTTP 200 code.

I would think that method one is doable from withing the /site/helpers/writexml.php helper function since we will know both the podcast title and feed url from within JBS. I'll enter it as a feature request for 6.3

Tom

thanks this will help keep my iTunes up to date better. would be nice to have this out by joomla 1.6