Podcasts that have redirection in their content urls (most notably
those that use podtrac.com for advertising/statistics) fail to
download correctly. This appears to either be an issue with gnome-vfs
or with how rhythmbox uses gnome-vfs. I haven't had time to look at
the real problem yet, but I have thrown together a quick hack that
lets me download my podcasts. Basically I am working from the
assumption that when there is redirection the url will look like this
http:://referersite.net?http://podcastsite.net
In the podcast parser I add a few lines to find the last http:// and
use it from that point on as the url. In order for it to work you
must first delete your podcast (feed only) and then re-add it.
Please note: most of the problems I have seen are caused by
podtrac.com and removing them from the picture may affect the revenue
stream for the content.
diff -u'rNF^function' rhythmbox-0.9.5/podcast/rb-podcast-parse.c rhythmbox-0.9.5.redir/podcast/rb-podcast-parse.c
--- rhythmbox-0.9.5/podcast/rb-podcast-parse.c 2006-06-16 22:51:55.000000000 -0400
+++ rhythmbox-0.9.5.redir/podcast/rb-podcast-parse.c 2006-07-06 10:19:56.000000000 -0400
@@ -271,6 +271,13 @@
for (; *attrs; attrs +=2) {
if (!strcmp (*attrs, "url")) {
const char *url_value = *(attrs + 1);
+ const char *temp;
+ /* attempt to fix broken redirections */
+ /* by finding the last http:// in the string */
+ while (temp = strstr((url_value+7), "http://";)) {
+ url_value = temp;
+ }
+
rb_set_item_value (ctx, "url", url_value);
} else if (!strcmp (*attrs, "length")) {
const char *length_value = *(attrs + 1);
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