Send Ping to Yahoo! when RSS Feed is Updated

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How to ping Yahoo! when an RSS feed has been updated, using the REST interface.

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<%

set http = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")

'  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
success = http.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write http.LastErrorText & "<br>"

End If

'  Yahoo indicates that The REST interface:
'  URL: http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/rss/ping
'  Parameter(s): u=<site or feed url>
'  HTTP method: GET

'  The RSS2 feed URL for blog.chilkatsoft.com is:
'  http://blog.chilkatsoft.com/?feed=rss2

'  Send the HTTP GET and return the content in a string.

responseText = http.QuickGetStr("http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://blog.chilkatsoft.com/?feed=rss2")

Response.Write Server.HTMLEncode( responseText) & "<br>"
%>
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