[gpodder-devel] Downloaded podcasts not recognized.
- From: jon at sd-6.org (Jon)
- Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:11:32 -0500
Thomas Perl wrote:
> Hello, Jon!
>
> On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 00:21 -0500, Jon wrote:
>> I've got a strange issue with one of my feeds. If I download a
>> podcast and check it the next day. The downloaded one is at the
>> bottom of the list. It is also near the top of the list, where it
>> would be expected to be but appears as a new podcast to be downloaded.
>> For some reason it is not associating the downloaded podcast with the
>> one in the list.
>>
>> The only thing that really stands out on this particular one is that
>> it is subscription based. Access is controlled via http auth. I have
>> my feed setup like http://user:pass at url. This may or may not be
>> related.
>
> Should be no problem if the RSS feed adds the authentication data to the
> links of your podcast.
>
>> I'd like to work on a patch if someone can quickly tell me how it
>> associates downloaded files with xml items.
>
> gPodder defines episodes as unique by their download URL, because the
> same URL will always retrieve the same content. The problem with your
> feed can have two causes I can think of from the top of my head:
>
> * Session ID is passed through the URL
> * Load balancing changes the URL on every update (mirrors)
>
> It would be nice if you could send me the RSS file in question (you can
> obfuscate the domain part of the URL and replace any authentication data
> that might be in the URLs). Please, send me one copy of the RSS file
> when you're downloading files and then send me another copy when the
> problem you described appears. The RSS files can be found in
> ~/.config/gpodder/cache/.
Thanks Tomas,
It appears that they are passing either the sessionid or the encrypted
password in the url.
Yesterdays update:
<item>
<title>Thu, April 5th, 2007 Hour 1</title>
<link>http://www.glennbeck.com/</link>
<itunes:author>Glenn Beck</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>The Glenn Beck Program Thu, April 5th, 2007 Hour
1</itunes:subtitle>
<enclosure type="audio/mpeg"
url="http://rss.premiereradio.net/download/glennbeck/{url-enc-email-addy-aka-username}/{40-digit-hex-key}/glennbeck/2007/04/Glenn%20Beck%20-%20Apr%2005%202007%20-%20Hour%201.mp3";
/>
<guid>0c153a870fe62a9cecddb2f7c54e2117</guid>
<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:keywords>Glenn Beck, Sick Freak, Talk</itunes:keywords>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
Todays update:
<item>
<title>Thu, April 5th, 2007 Hour 1</title>
<link>http://www.glennbeck.com/</link>
<itunes:author>Glenn Beck</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>The Glenn Beck Program Thu, April 5th, 2007
Hour 1</itunes:subtitle>
<enclosure type="audio/mpeg"
url="http://rss.premiereradio.net/download/glennbeck/{url-enc-email-addy-aka-username}/{40-digit-hex-key}/glennbeck/2007/04/Glenn%20Beck%20-%20Apr%2005%202007%20-%20Hour%201.mp3";
/>
<guid>0c153a870fe62a9cecddb2f7c54e2117</guid>
<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:keywords>Glenn Beck, Sick Freak, Talk</itunes:keywords>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
Not sure why they would do that as I tried downloading the old and
assumed expired url and it worked fine. I don't have this problem with
iTunes. I assume they look for the guid. Perhaps gPodder should do the
same.
Thanks,
-Jon
>
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
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