#Known issues
Introduction
This page depicts knows issues of the utility. Most of them are caused by limitations of the blog host's api.
Details
- blogger website is blocked in china mainland. gdata authentication fails due to receiving a tcp RST package.
- newPost method always ignores the post's dateCreated property, override it with the server time that the request is received
- newPost method always ignores the post's dateCreated property, override it with the server time that the request is received
- the title of returned post is html encoded. For example, "blog title" is returned as "blog title"
- the content of returned post is always empty
- posts created in web browser are not returned, only posts created through metaweblog api are returned
- metaweblog.EditPost always return error 500
(these limitations make it impossible to use)
- getRecentPosts method only allows get 20 posts at most at a time. We can't get all of our posts easily
- The dateCreated property's format (%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ) can't be recognized by xmlrpclib (%Y%m%dT%H:%M%S) and convert to datetime. It causes inconsistency.
- LiveSpaceProvider is based on downloaded zip blog file, so it can only be used as source during synchronization
- Downloaded zip blog file doesn't contain blog category, this information will be lost during synchronization
- metaweblogapi isn't supported anymore after csdn upgrade their blog system. What a backslide!