Posting From Scripts

I recently got a new phone - one that takes video and photos and can e-mail these out. My goal was to post photos from my phone.

Short Version:

Initially, i wanted to write a script to do this, but couldn't get the interface to blogger working, so instead tried blogger's "go@blogger.com" solution. That didn't work either, i went back to working on a script, and finally got the script bit figured out. The two previous posts were done from my phone.

Longer Version:

I was hoping to be able to simply submit a post via e-mail. I have a wrapper script for an e-mail address on my server that parses messages from my phone, retrieves the photo and text, scales down the photo, and then e-mails blogger with an html img tag and the text. Blogger translated the tags into html entities, so i e-mailed them with a html encoding, and this mail was rejected.

Next i tried go@blogger.com, which is supposed to take picture mail from various providers, including mine, but kept getting Mail Delivery errors:
Command died with status 1: " /home/bloggermail/mail_2_blogger.par www-internal.blogger.com:80 2>>/home/bloggermail/m2b-output.log"

Then i tried using perl's XML::Atom (v 0.11) module to post, but the script would die reporting a 500 Server Error. I followed the actual tcp connection and saw that it was really getting a 401 error, and the following:
I'm sorry, we only support BASIC Authentication over SSL
Looking at the rest of the connection, i noticed that indeed the auth bit generated by XML::Atom was different than what blogger wanted, according to their sample page.

So i followed their sample page and tried to manually connect by 'telnet www.blogger.com 80' and typing in the correct data. Retrieving data worked (and i believe my auth string is correct since if i changed it i would get a "login failed" message), but posting data died with this Java error:
Exception caught but no reason given: java.io.EOFException
which led me to believe that something is wrong in their Atom implementation.

Finally i tried perl's Net::Blogger module, which implies that XML::Atom should be used instead (as do most blogger pages - the reason i didn't try Net::Blogger first). There is also a link from the Net::Blogger docs to the blogger API, and this API page states that it is no longer developed but still supported.

Sure enough, using Net::Blogger works to post messages to blogger. According to this page, blogger should accept html encoded pages, so perhaps i will again explore that later. For now, i'd like to get some speech-to-text cli software working so i can send a voice message to my e-mail that gets translated into the text of the post, instead of having to type in on my phone, and i need to come up with a way to add instructions on image editing to my text message, so the image can be cropped/lightened/etc.