Refresh of podcast failing on Windows 10

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Sat Jul 30 20:47:53 BST 2016, artisticforge . wrote:

> I have get_iplayer-2.95 installed on Windows 10 on a toshiba laptop.
> I have noticed yesterday and today that podcasts are not being refreshed.
> the podcast.cache file is basically empty except for the field header 
> line.

First thing is I have a custom GiP 2.95 installation
on Windows Vista SP2 x86 and I can't replicate
your issue:

perl get_iplayer-295.pl --type=podcast -f --force

in the CLI refreshes the podcast cache and some
minutes ago created a 24.3 MiB sized
"podcast.cache" file within
%USERPROFILE%\.get_iplayer\
while previous cache was backed up to "podcast.cache.old"

I don't have access to a Win10 box
(and I wouldn't touch one even with
a barge pole), so can't check there... :-(

> Hints would be welcomed.

Are you using the CLI or the WebPVR Manager
to refresh the podcast cache?
I am not a GUI user myself, but just
for the heck of it I also gave that a go...
The podcast refresh went fine there, too,
but if I may say so myself,
I didn't quite like the "dotted-line" going all the
way to the right and not doing a "line-wrap",
as is the case in the CLI...

> the log file for Linux contains:
> INFO: Search args: '.*'
> (snip)
> the log file for Windows contains:
> INFO: Search args: '.*'^M

On your Win laptop, somehow an extra
"^M" is added to your search arguments;
this in turn causes GiP to append it to the
Podcast feed URLs, resulting in 404
(Not Found) responses from the beeb servers.
As you can tell, that results in no podcasts
found, ergo an empty cache...

I would begin troubleshooting by pinpointing
the source of this extra "^M" item
(possibly something inside user options?).

(Under another heatwave over here, Core Temp
reports my CPU's 2 cores being at 65/64 C just
doing simple browsing, while bedroom temp's
is currently 30.4C at 04:00 in the morning!
So only minimal usage of the laptop this period!)

Best regards,
Vangelis.