[Linux-disciples] Pinging Technorati

[Stephen R Laniel]

I'm using the Frontier::Client Perl library (in APT) to
write a little program that will ping Technorati whenever I
update my blog. In its entirety, here's my script:

/*
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Frontier::Client;
my $server = Frontier::Client->new( 'url' => 'http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping' );
my @args = ("Stephen Laniel's Unspecified Bunker", 'http://laniels.org/');
my $result = $server->call('weblogUpdates.ping', @args);
*/

I *think* that did what I wanted it to, but I can't tell;
the page describing the library
(http://search.cpan.org/~kmacleod/Frontier-RPC-0.06/lib/Frontier/Client.pm)
(sorry, shorl.com appears to be down) doesn't list any error
messages that the library returns, nor does it list any
methods on the object that allow you to print the object's
contents (i.e., no 'tostring' method). Just doing a straight
'print $server' or 'print $result' doesn't seem to do
anything.

So two questions:

1) any idea how to get this library to be useful?
and
2) is this the library you'd use if you were writing an
XML-RPC client?

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