cparker;617007 Wrote: 
> Hi, Just for awareness though this may have no relevance in your case! 
> 
> 
> SBS requests web data under a unique User Agent header that identifies
> it as squeezeserver (I cant remember the exact name).  
> 
> Therefore if the BBC decided to drop traffic from older browsers or to
> offload traffic they dont want to hit their site.  They could do so
> quite easily but your web browser would still work fine.
> 
> I found this out by chance when writing plugins and had to alter the
> header to masquerade as IE to be able to hit a website :)  (not BBC
> though)
> 
> > 
Code:
--------------------
  >   > 
  > $http->get($url, 'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; 
Windows NT 6.0)');
  > 
--------------------
> > 
> 
> It would affect everyone rather than just you! Your case sounds more
> like allowing time for ports to clear or timeout before reopening
> them again.  All a little strange.....

Don't believe the BBC is doing this - they did ask for useragent
information to count our usage, but not sure they are actually counting
at present.

For this specific problem I would restart the server and check you
router/isp connection (probably reconnect them to reset any dns server
info).  This is not a problem with the plugin, but with how squeezebox
server gets the address information.


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