How to ping technorati with coldfusion

This simple code will allow you to use Coldfusion to fire an xmlrpc request to the technorati API.

<cfoutput><?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>weblogUpdates.ping</methodName>
<params>
<param>
<value>sitetitle
</param>
<param>
<value>urlofblog
</param>
</params>
</methodCall></cfoutput>


<cfhttp method="POST" url="http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping">
<cfhttpparam name="param1" value="#myPackage#" type="xml">
</cfhttp>