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404 on TrackBack URLs with IIS

If I ping a default url for a TrackBack entry, I get a 404 error (viewed from a browser).

Bad Protocol 'tcp' When Sending Pings

My activity log reports these errors when trying to send pings, for example: Ping 'http://www.movabletype.org/update/' failed: HTTP error: 500 Can't connect to www.movabletype.org:80 (Bad protocol 'tcp').

HTML is Removed from MTPings

I'm using some custom HTML inside an MTPings container, but the code disappears when the page is published.

HTTP error: 500 read timeout When Sending Pings

My activity log reports these errors when trying to send pings, for example: Ping 'http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2' failed: HTTP error: 500 Can't connect to rpc.weblogs.com:80 (connect: timeout).

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