i installed the demo version of netnewswire a few weeks back but was unable to get the weblog posting piece working. as you likely already know i’m running movabletype to run this blog. anyhow, i was ready to give up on netnewswire until i found a posting on the yahoo soap::lite perl forum that described my problem and provided a workaround.


in short if your running movable type and you use iis on windows (not that there is another operating system supported) and can’t seem to get xml-rpc, soap, or blogging tools working then you likely have this problem and don’t even know it. to fix it you have to open the HTTP.pm file in you extlib/SOAP/Transport/ directory. do a search on SERVER_SOFTWARE and the line before it occurs the first time place this snippit: undef $ENV{SERVER_SOFTWARE};


that’s it, the next time you try to xml-rpc, soap, or your favorite blogging tool (which all use xml-rpc) it should work. i hope this helps someone else as much as it helped me.