Today while Posting to blogger using Live Writer I got this annoying error:
This seemed very odd as I did not think I was doing anything different, perhaps Blogger was down?
I invested a Little and found no known or obvious issues with Blogger. I then decided to restart Live Writer, and yet again no luck
Finally It hit me, if I scroll down in the error box it had one very important piece of information (see bold below):
The server reported an error with the following URL:
http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6464718258414775904/posts/default
400 Bad Request
Invalid category term
It seems that my choice of Q&A in the Categories option was not valid for blogger, it did not support the &. Changing it to QA instead worked and my post went through.
This is a good lesson to everyone: when you get a message box with an error scroll down and read everything!
2 comments:
I also got same error and it seems that Blogger doesn't support special characters in case of naming categories.e.g. &.
Live Writer is definitely not perfect but overall it is an amazing piece of software. We just need to be aware of stuff like this and I know for a fact the team is working on making it even better.
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