diff --git a/wp-trackback.php b/wp-trackback.php
index 9113043e78..b46ceca27b 100644
--- a/wp-trackback.php
+++ b/wp-trackback.php
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ function trackback_response($error = 0, $error_message = '') {
 		echo "<error>1</error>\n";
 		echo "<message>$error_message</message>\n";
 		echo "</response>";
+		die();
 	} else {
 		echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?'.">\n";
 		echo "<response>\n";
 		echo "<error>0</error>\n";
 		echo "</response>";
 	}
-	die();
 }
 
 // trackback is done by a POST