How to fix Your Open Live Writer Account Settings for weblogs.asp.net

When I tried to post on my blog (weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt) yesterday using Open Live Writer, it failed with an error message – I ended up posting via the web interface.

I contacted the ASP.NET website support and today Terri Morton got back to me, telling me that an update of the website last week forces https and that I should point my blog account to https://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt. Interestingly, it was already set to https.

Adding a new account in Open Live Writer is really easy, so I tried that, but it didn’t work. Looking at the error message, a mix of https and http URIs caught my eye:

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Digging in the registry, I found the following entry

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER
    • SOFTWARE
      • OpenLiveWriter
        • Weblogs
          • <guid>
            • PostApiURl = http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/XmlRpc

After changing the URL from http to https and restarting Open Live Writer, my blog account worked again – this post is living proof.

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