Allow pinging from an old URL
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Description
Currently, pinging an entry by URL will only send the pings from the current canonical URL. Sometimes it's necessary to manually send pings from an old or non-canonical URL; for example, forcing a receiving website to update the canonical URL on an outdated ping (when the interim update failed for whatever reason, or the user hasn't been using the caching mechanism).
So, there should be a command-line option that makes process_entry_mentions send the pings from url instead of entry.url.
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Research direction
Start by locating the command-line entry point and the process_entry_mentions function, then trace how url and entry.url are currently selected. Add the requested command-line option and verify that it makes pinging use the supplied url instead of the canonical entry.url, while preserving the current behavior by default.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend, cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100