no verpids?

Fred Gorm anthony at bifb.org
Mon Oct 4 19:26:36 EDT 2010


Yes, I see the same thing with docoja. Not sure what to do though.

On 03 Oct 2010 at 13:18:44, Magic Cheezer wrote:
> 
> did some more digging
>  
> something has changed with the behaviour of the proxy
> using --proxy="prepend:http://www.docoja.com/blue/browse.php?u="
>  
> when get_iplayer starts retrieving metadata,
> it will use its ua to fetch a specific page,
> e.g.
>  
> INFO: Getting page http://www.docoja.com/blue/browse.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Fiplayer%2Fepisode%2Fb00v2qyt
>  
> now it seems this is using an HTTP 302 redirect to http://www.docoja.com/blue/index.php?e=no_hotlink
>  
> Strangely, if you enter the URL in your browser, it seems to work as expected and renders the relevent BBC target page - although every now and again I see this redirect even from my browser...
>  
> I have no idea if this is a transient issue (problem?) with the proxy, or if something in the way get_iplayer constructs its ua/http requests needs to change. What is clear is that docoja is ALWAYS returning the "no_hotlink" redirect for requests from get_iplayer's perl (you can see this in Wireshark).
>  
> anybody with half a clue about this stuff have a bright idea, please reply here!!
>  
> thanks,
> m 		 	   		  
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