I just checked in an initial version. That's the play stuff I attached here some months ago in a twikified vesture so that the things are at the right place and do the right thing.

This initial version does nothing right now, i.e. it does not store ping requests nor does it any further processing. But we can already send pings and receive them. There is a test gui to create pings and the server will respond with all the necessary error codes on a wellformed ping request.

There are two ways to trigger the server: (1) using the pingback cgi (2) using the REST interface. But in order to make (2) functional Bug:Item2362 has to be resolved/patched AFAICS. … reply