Post to WordPress in Perl (xmlrpc)

Filed under: Perl tips — vincent @ 23:29

Today, I had to enable a custom program to inject posts in a WordPress blog. Since WordPress implements not less than 3 differents APIs to this effect, through XMLRPC, the choice of the technology was easy: Perl and xmlrpc.

The task was complicated by the fact that the page was only accessible by passing through an HTTP Basic Authentication.

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