Articles Tagged with “Trackback”

09/01/2008: X-Blog-Name

OK, so the Trackback specification includes the ability for a pinging page to specify its article title and blog name when it sends a trackback ping. However, these fields are optional. When not present, typically the recipient of the ping will then make an HTTP request back to the pinger to determine the article title from the page’s <title> element. But there is no standardised way of determining the blog name — or more generically, because Trackback can be used by sites other than blogs — the name of the “collection of web pages”.

The following informal specification suggests a method of determining the name of the collection of documents to which a given HTML document belongs. It also provides a clear way for you to mark your own HTML documents as being part of a particular collection.

Determining the Collection for a Given Document

Attempt to find the name of the collection…