Okay, I’ve implemented this beast. Feeds that support Pubsubhubbub functionality will now be able to distribute their posts as they are published to Afrigator. Well, all but Blogger or Blogspot feeds as I’m having a weird issue with pubsubhubbub.appspot.com which is the hub for Blogger/Blogspot blogs.

If you are using WordPress.com (i.e. yourname.wordpress.com) your good to go. If you run your own installation of WordPress, I strongly suggest that you install the PuSHPress plugin. Why? Here is a good couple of reasons:

1. It get you more exposure. Your latest post would be published immediately. This results in your content being distributed as they’re published instead of hours later.

2. It saves you bandwidth. We don’t need to check your entire feed every hour. We sit back and wait until you publish a blog post.

3. We’re not the only ones doing it. Other services and aggregators also uses Pubsubhubbub. Services like Friendfeed, etc. Which means you’ll save even MORE bandwidth and your content would be even more realtime.

Okay, I’m still having issues with Blogspot blogs. They use a Google Appspot application to enable the realtime publishing of their feeds. However, when I try to subscribe at pubsubhubbub.appspot.com it always returns a 500 Internal Server Error and I’m not sure why. I tried setting various headers as I thought that maybe it is because I’m using a Python script to subscribe, but to no avail. I checked using the service Hurl and that works every time without fail. I’m a bit frustrated and lost. If anyone have any ideas, I’d welcome it.

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