(note: example urls broken because of line width, they’re each on one line in my code 
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I’m using code referenced here: http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/2431 to access the del.* tagging api with only limited success. I dont think it’s the code, though, because the problem is replicatable in the browser, and everything *seems* to line up with the docs.. The URL I use to create the item is:
https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts
/add?&url=la+la+la&description=foo&tags=foo
This works. I get a nice “foo” with the proper url “la la la” and I get a pretty <result code=”done”/> Then I try to delete the item with iether of these urls:
https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts
/delete?&url=la+la+la
https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts
/delete?&url=foo
Niether of these work, I still get a pretty <result code=”done”/>, but the item is never deleted…
I saw this problem referenced on the Tucows Farm blog but the only suggestion in the comments was: “Google for “delicious-import.pl”, it deletes bookmarks upto 100 at a time. A quick little override in the code will make it delete all bookmarks. Handy when you screw up an import. Not so handy in other situations, which is why you cant do it by default. This script will read a netscape/firefox/mozilla type bookmark file. I am re-working it to do Opera for me.” Which I did, the URL build inside of the script there is http://user:pass@del.icio.us/api/posts/delete?&url=la+la+la but that’s out of date. I tried it anyhow, andit redirected me to the /v1/ query above (https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/delete?&url=la+la+la) Which still didnt work. I can’t imagine that I’m the only person who’s run into this problem