So a couple of months ago, I was having problems with Flickr,and it’s “e-mail-to-blog” functionality. No matter what I tried, it threw back and error when I tried to post something (only discernible when I did the test function).
(As a side note, finding this functionality in Flickr is not trivial. Unless they’re positively advertising it, it’s not in an obvious place in the menus.)
I figured it was something wonky in my MT installation, until Doyce IMed me that he was having a similar problem in MT4, and pointed toward this discussion thread.
Based on that, I seem to have gotten the Flickr-to-blog stuff working, by creating a new blog to go to, but instead of using the Movable Type protocol, using the MetaWeblog protocol (it’s in the drop down in Flickr when adding a blog). Where it asks for the API end-point, use the full path for mt-xmlrpc.cgi, and then use the login ID and API password for the userid to post with.
I tried this, and as the discussion thread indicated, it threw up an error in testing — but, it did actually post the test. Not sure what’s going on there, or why other XML-RPC-based stuff I got to my blog with –e.g., ecto — works fine. But it does worry me a bit that there’s some discussion on the boards about problems with this protocol and Movable Type 4. So I’ll be keeping an eye on that, too.
Meantime — expect more Blackberry-to-blog picture posts. I hope.
That’s what mine used to do – it would throw an error, but the post would go up. But that was several versions ago, and I wasn’t sure if that made a difference or not in your case.
I don’t know if the error lies on the MT side, the Flickr side, or some other bad drug interaction. It’s just weird.
So based on this post, I tried deleting my old MT-based Flickr entry and rebuilding it.
Bad news: it throws the userid/password error in testing.
Good news: it created a test post.
So either approach seems to work, for me, with test errors. Weird.
Poking through the Flickr forums and the 6A forums, I find old stuff from around MT3.2 indicating that they sent out a bad XMLRPCServer.pm file with the production release, which was leading to a similar problem. There’s a fixed version of the file here.
I can’t imagine this is still a problem in MT3.3 (where I am) or MT4 (where Doyce is further struggling). No references to Movable Type 4 problems with Flickr that I can find. Hrm.