Exciting news! Read some time back about 2.3 coming out soon and just saw the post that Beta 1 is out for testing. Shall have a go at it on a beta domain soon! 

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Had been having problems posting to windows hosted blogs with wordpress via Windows Live Writer. Finally found the solution after googling for it. Apparently, its a security measure made to prevent attacks againt malformed HTTP status lines and headers. Not sure of the exact cause since only upgraded to Plesk 8.2 on the windows server but anyway, the solution works.

Added to live writer’s config file “WindowsLiveWriter.exe.config”

<?xml version =”1.0″?>
<configuration>
  <system.net>
    <settings>
      <httpWebRequest useUnsafeHeaderParsing=”true” />
    </settings>
  </system.net>
</configuration>

Been having a rather curious bug on WordPress installations on IIS such that for the front page, the previous post link to the second page keeps showing “index.phpIndex.php” instead of forming the correct url path.

Finally fixed this by modifying the code at “/wp-includes/link-template.php”

function get_pagenum_link($pagenum = 1) {
...
// insert before return $qstr
$qstr = str_replace("index.phpIndex.php","index.php",$qstr);
return $qstr;
}