Posting via XML-RPC not working

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  prasannarajak · Member · Nov 21, 2012 at 4:16 am

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  Remote posting not working got the following error.

  “An error occurred – 500:You are not allowed to do that.”

  The blog I need help with is http://prasannaeph.wordpress.com

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  prasannarajak · Member · Nov 21, 2012 at 1:21 pm

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  Remote posting not working got the following error.

  Also get the following errors for few accounts.

  “32300:transport error – HTTP status code was not 200”

  “403:Incorrect username or password.”

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  vawwordpress · Member · Nov 22, 2012 at 12:29 am

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  This is the same error we are encountering. Have you had any response prasannarajak?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 22, 2012 at 12:35 am

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  Here at WordPress.com XML-RPC is always enabled by default so you don’t need to enable it. I’ll flag this thread for Staff assistance.

  These applications may ask for something like an XML-RPC (or API) endpoint, which will be your blog domain followed by “xmlrpc.php”. So, for example, if your blog was at matt.wordpress.com, your endpoint would be:
  http://matt.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

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  prasannaephronsys · Member · Nov 22, 2012 at 4:03 am

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  We got this error “403:Incorrect username or password.” for the blog http://prasannaephronsys.wordpress.com. We can able to login using the same username and password to WordPress.com, but for XMLRPC not working. This is happened from 20 November . Before it is working fine.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Nov 22, 2012 at 8:59 pm

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  Please be sure you’re logging in with your username, rather than an email address. Let me know if this helps.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Nov 22, 2012 at 9:15 pm

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  I’m investigating this further and will keep you posted.

  vawwordpress – I’ve also replied in your other thread.

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  prasannarajak · Member · Nov 23, 2012 at 4:07 am

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  Hi kathrynwp,

  Thanks for your reply.

  When using the email address and try the “wp.getCategories” method got the following error message:

  “403:Incorrect username or password.”,

  And when using the username instead of email address and try the “metaWeblog.newPost” method got the following error message:

  “500:You are not allowed to do that.”

  Please do the necessary, we can not post from 20 November, before is is working fine.

  Thanks.

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  prasannarajak · Member · Nov 23, 2012 at 7:07 am

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  Hi kathrynwp,

  The user posting was success with the OAuth method using the api token.

  Ref.
  http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/oauth2/
  http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/1/post/sites/%24site/posts/new/

  Please advise.

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  sigum1962123 · Member · Nov 27, 2012 at 7:41 am

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  I also have the same problem now.

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  mikabrwn · Member · Nov 29, 2012 at 12:09 am

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  We have the same problem as well. Please fix this ASAP.

  You cannot retire or cripple the XML-RPC API because stand-alone WordPress.org sites must provide that API. OAuth for standalone installations will never work because no web service is going to register its application with each individually installed WordPress.org blog.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 29, 2012 at 12:13 am

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  This thread is tagged for a Staff response.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Dec 3, 2012 at 10:14 pm

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  sigum1962123 – your site was suspended for violations of our Terms of Service. If you have any questions, please contact our TOS team by filling out the form here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Dec 3, 2012 at 10:19 pm

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  mikabrwn – for which site(s) are you having trouble posting via XML-RPC? I looked at http://mikabrwn.wordpress.com/ but there’s only one post. Thanks.

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  spundge · Member · Dec 5, 2012 at 11:47 pm

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  One of our user experienced the same issue. Her blog is here: https://mediamorphology.wordpress.com/

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Dec 6, 2012 at 7:45 pm

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  spundge – the issue with that site should now be fixed. Let me know if you still have the problem.

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  ofdustandkings · Member · Jan 7, 2013 at 1:54 pm

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  Hi Kathryn!

  I am now having the same problem with my site http://ofdustandkings.wordpress.com

  Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

  ~Thomas

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jan 17, 2013 at 10:06 pm

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  ofdustandkings – could you please start a new thread and tag it with modlook. Let us know exactly by what mechanism you’re posting via XML-RPC. If you’re using a script, please post the entire script in a Pastebin – http://pastebin.com – and provide a link to it. Thanks.