Why blogging from Word 2007 to Dasblog does not work.

I was really excited by the Blogging feature Word 2007 - It looked really good, easy to use and some of the formats you can do to a picture are pretty cool.

As soon as I found it I tried to set it up with this dasBlog account - Word 2007 is supposed to support the metaWebLog API (which dasBlog supports from v1.9), so in theory it should have worked - however it didn't work fully.
I could upload new blog posts but it didn't like the posting of images - in returned a message saying it was not supported and I should use FTP upload instead.
I wasn't happy with this as the metaWebLog API has a newMediaObject method which allows for uploading of images etc and I know it is implemented in dasBlog (I think Omar Shahine added it).

Anyway, I emailed Joe Friend (the MS guy who originally posted about this feature of Word) - he has since moved on so couldn't help (in fact I think my email to him was the catalyst for his Email is now off post - oops)...

The annoying thing is that Windows Live Writer supports the metaWebLog API implemented by dasBlog and can upload images fine....

Mmmmm, something not right here - taking things into my own hands, I cracked open Fiddler and compared the HTTP request / responses between a Writer posting and a Word posting. The Word postings always fail on the newMediaObject calls - here is a screenshot of the request / response from Word.

Looks like Word is trying to pass the blogid parameter as an int and not as a string as the spec dictates...

As far as I know, Word works correctly with MySpaces, Blogger and a few other blogging engines - maybe they are not as strict as dasBlog when checking the parameter types passed ??

I suppose I could write an HTTPHandler or something to convert that type description from an 'int' to a 'string'.