For a while now I've been using a product called Kung-Log to write up my Rants remotely. See, MovableType (MT) - the software that I've been using to manage this site for a bit now - has been great for posting Rants, while online. It offers a web page that I can post the Rants to - from PC or Mac which was a new requirement for me - but that only works while I'm connected to the 'net. For writing while offline, I've been using Kung-Log. Kung-Log has been allowing me to write up "Drafts" while offline, complete with inline spell checking and tag management. Ideally, Kung-Log would allow you to sync and upload changes to the server that's running MT, but I haven't been able to do that... until now.

It seems that there's been a bug with the version of SOAP that comes with MT, that causes problems when it is hosted on an IIS server; since this server is IIS based, I suffered from this bug, which is what stopped Kung-Log from working. Neither MT nor Kung-Log were to blame for this bug, but it was still out there and prevented me from uploading Rants without some grunt work. Well, thanks to a posting from else where on the 'net and a single line file change to an MT module, Kung-Log now works!

In the MT\ExtLib\XMLRPC\Transport directory, open the HTTP.pm file. Add the following line:

undef $ENV{SERVER_SOFTWARE};

@XMLRPC::Transport::HTTP::CGI::ISA = qw(SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI);

I love technology when it works and makes my life easier - I just hate it when you have to work harder to get the technology to work in the first place! At least neither of the tools that I love to use are responsible for my troubles - was a completely hidden bug that did that to me.