On the iTunes tech specs page
(http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html) the
following example is given for tracking downloads:
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Please note that iTunes does not provide usage statistics. Some
podcasters have created mechanisms for tracking the number of times
that each episode has been downloaded. iTunes does not provide support
in how to track downloads, but the following notes may be helpful:
* 302s will be followed to a depth of 5 redirects and will not
update the feed URL in the directory.
* The URL before the GET-style form values (before the first ?)
must end in a media file extension (e.g. mp3). To work around this,
the feed provider can alter their URL from this:
http://www.podcaster.com/load.php?f=&Wipeout.php
to this:
http://www.podcaster.com/load.mp3?f=&Wipeout.mp3
Notice how it says load.mp3 instead of load.php. It should be
possible to accomplish this via various means, such as web server
rewrites. iTunes looks at the extension of the path part of the url,
i.e. the part before the"?".
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I really don't understand what they are saying. I have my podcasting
feed as a .cfm page and I am using the cfxml tag and cfcontent to
transform it into xml output:
<cfprocessingdirective suppresswhitespace="Yes">
<cfcontent type="text/xml; charset=utf-8">
<cfxml variable="theXML">
<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"; version="2.0">
xml....
</rss>
</cfxml>
<cfoutput>#ToString(theXML)#</cfoutput>
</cfprocessingdirective>
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