Re: [Xmltv-devel] Question about tv_grab_fr on HEAD

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On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:20:57 +0100, Dreamcat4 wrote:

> Hi, i'm on 5.65 and this grabber would not work.
> 
> So I replace with the file from this commit:
> 
> http://xmltv.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xmltv/xmltv/grab/fr/tv_grab_fr?r1=1.97&r2=1.98
> 
> But now says
> 
> getting channel lists: ########Can't call method "look_down" on an
> undefined value at /usr/local/bin/tv_grab_fr line 1096, <STDIN> line
> 1.
> 

Seems the problem is as described in the CVS comment for rev 1.98

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server returns blank page
(note: site is broken in as much as it returns a blank page but with http code 200 and cache-control max-age=1800,
site also seems to ignore max-age=0 requests so it's impossible to override this!)
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Nothing can be done about this (it's a website fault) but I've improved the error handling during --configure so it will ignore the failed channel and continue. So at least you can get *something* ! (rev. 1.99)

The cached page is recreated by the server every 300 seconds so if you try again after that time you might subsequently be able to retrieve the failed page correctly.