Ecto Borkage
I have been evaluating Ecto for the past two days as my main interface to updating this site. I find it much easier to use than the standard wordpress web gui, and its good for working offline as well. So this morning I spent a decent chunk of time on a post and went back to it a couple of times over the course of the day. When I was ready to post, I realized that the proxy I go through at work would not allow me to post, and ecto could
not authenticate to it. No biggie, I will just post it later. Later on I jump on a hotspot and ecto appeared to post my entry, then poof…. No post on my site, and its gone from ecto. Frustration ensues.
It is more than likely a problem related to the captive portal of the network I was on because I had not yet authenticated and the redirect potentially accepted the HTTP POST from ecto and returned a 200 when attempting to redirect ecto to the portal page, then ecto assumed the story was posted, or possibly just that my wordpress installation borked itself temporarily. At least that it what sounds like according to this http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/archives/001564.php .
They have had a similiar issue with blogger. Where the web service reports the story was posted so ecto deletes the draft.
If you use ecto I would suggest that you disable the ”delete draft after posting?” check box in the options panel. This will insure that you do not get spanked by this.
