Question thread #57

[pauamma]

It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.

Comments

[apparentparadox]

I've decided that I'm unlikely to do any dreamwidth development. How do I release my dreamhack?

[mdlbear]

Is there a good command-line client for Linux? Good meaning:
1. It lets me post preformatted HTML5, with unclosed [p] and [li] tags, and treats newlines as spaces as per the HTML spec. This probably rules out XML-RPC unless it will take the body of the post in a CDATA section.
2. The body of the post comes from STDIN. (I can write a temporary file if necessary, but I'd rather not.)
3. After it posts, it returns the ID of the post.
4. Ideally, it can edit a post.
5. It can be put in a Makefile or other shell script -- it mustn't ask the user for the password or borrow a cookie from a browser. I want to integrate it with my make- and git-based workflow.

If there isn't one, which API should I use to build one? I've been meaning to find one of these for a while; it's gotten more urgent now that my preferred client, ljupdate.el, stopped working presumably due to the HTTPS upgrade.

[momijizukamori]

Does anyone have resources for API-testing they can recommend? I'm bad at testing in general and I know this is going to be one of the stumbling blocks for getting new API stuff up and running.

[fiddlingfrog]

A few weeks ago, when https was enabled by default across the site, the Wordpress plugin I use to crosspost from Wordpress to Dreamwidth, JournalPress, stopped working. A friend reported that the LiveJournal Crossposter also stopped working.

When I attempt to crosspost I get this error message:
fiddlingfrog @ www.dreamwidth.org: transport error - HTTP status code was not 200
from the JournalPress plugin. The other plugin does not give me an error message.

Does anyone know where I should start looking in order to update either plugin to work with the current https configuration of the site?

[gatheringrivers]

How goes the effort to allow selection of "which 15 icons out of my lots do I want to use" for free accounts? :)

(I'll eventually go paid again, but that won't be for a while due to RL.)

*edit*
If you're concerned about people swapping which 15 all the time, force it to only be changeable like....1/year or 1/6 months? I don't know if a limitation like that is even possible.