I would say this is complete, but I have always been wrong in the past, so who knows whether I am actually done.  Chances are, I’m not.

As far as I know, I can call Akismet with no problem.  I kept on using PHP, and the PECL_HTTP library that took me ages to install in the last lab served me very well.  I was able to make http_post_data calls, and to my knowledge everything works….

…except for the fact that I don’t really know how to verify whether my XML makes it to the Processing Queue (http://queue.amazonaws.com/A3N3IV5XJH079S/processing).  Right now, I send a HTTP POST to that endpoint, specifying the content type as text/xml.  If there are some configuration issues, then I should be able to finish them quickly.