Re: [Xmltv-devel] tv_grab_na --configure - 302:Found message and no channels

[Jerry V. <je...@ma...>]

All my overnight grabs died in the same way.
I'm taking a look at it this morning. Not sure when I'll
have a fix.

I'll post to xmltv-devel when the "fix is in".

jerry

--On Friday, November 22, 2002 10:15:55 AM -0500 Sarah Nordstrom 
<sar...@sa...> wrote:

> Wouldn't surprise me if they were blocking some user-agents to try to stop
>  people from doing exactly what we're doing ;o)
> OK, just wanted to confirm this isn't something that's a known problem
> with an easy fix or anything, I'll spend some time looking at it over the
> weekend and see what I come up with.
>
>   -- Sarah
>
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Ed Avis wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Sarah Nordstrom wrote:
>>
>> > When i run tv_grab_na --configure (on Linux, perl 5.6.1), it was
>> > giving me a Bad Code 302:Found message.
>>
>> I'm getting this too, both for configuration and grabbing.  It is a
>> recent development.
>>
>> > From past experience i tried forcing the User Agent string it's
>> > sending to pretend to be Mozilla, and that gets me a little further,
>>
>> Hmm.  I wonder if they have started deliberately blocking certain user
>> agents?
>>
>> -- Is it me, or has the zap2it site recently been given a
>> makover?  That could be it.
>>
>> > but it then gave a 404 trying to load edit_provider_list.asp (this
>> > is from memory but i'm pretty sure that was the filename).  Looked
>> > into it a bit and tried changing that to system.asp, which then
>> > loads what looks like a channel grid (added some debug code to dump
>> > out exactly what it gets to a text file so i could look at it), but
>> > tv_grab_na says it received no channels.
>>
>> It sounds like the layout may have changed completely and tv_grab_na
>> will need some rewriting.  I'll wait to see what the grabber's author
>> has to say.
>>
>> I suppose this means the next XMLTV release should be delayed until
>> all the grabbers are working again... maybe I should have pushed it
>> out while I still could :-(.
>>
>> Thanks for reporting this, I can't say when it will be fixed but I'm
>> sure you're not the only one affected.
>>
>> --
>> Ed Avis <ed...@me...>
>>
>>
>>
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