Hi Michael,
The option to enable or disable the track downloads feature is found
on the Analyze Tab - Standard Stats (for free users) or Total Stats
Pro (for pro users) by clicking the checkbox Item enclosure downloads
(podcast downloads) It's a new option that we added with our Stats
redesign at the beginning of the month and, like all of our services,
is an opt-in feature by the publisher.
Just to make sure, I also verified that Fireant was included in the
list of podcatchers that were tested during QA. But if you see an
outstanding issues, we'd be glad to look into it and do whatever we
can to assist in resolving it.
For this particular feed, we just tested on the latest version of
Fireant on Mac and Windows XP and were able to subscribe to the feed
and receive the media downloads just fine. Let us know if you see
anything different.
We definitely understand your concern on the format of the rewritten
urls. Primarily, we always want to make sure that everything we do is
standards compliant. This particular convention is same one that
we've used for tracking clickthroughs on items for the last couple of
years. Historically, it has worked well but we can definitely see
where this can be confusing (even to us at times :) in the sense of
url's that link to media files.
On the other hand, manipulating the query parameters to meet logic
that depends on the extension at the end of a link can also be
considered to have a negative impact as it masks deeper problems in
client code that prevent it from working correctly with standards
based urls. Testing revealed that most clients handled things
correctly and the couple of issues we received were followed up with
close work with the client software author to make sure the issues are
understood and resolvable.
Nevertheless, we definitely give the feedback we receive either way
much importance and will take it into account. I hope this explains
the thinking behind the way its working now and look forward to any
suggestions. Thank you so much for using feedburner and we're always
open to your ideas.
Jessie Chavez
Feedburner Engineering Team
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Sullivan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
josh, i did in my message. i have been referring to this example:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/spainfulfilms
On 3/16/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could you give me a RSS URL that uses this?
I have never encountered this issue here. We should still be able to
download the files using that URL convention.
-Josh
On 3/16/06, Andreas Haugstrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:17:15 +0100, Michael Sullivan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ie. http://feeds.feedburner.com/spainfulfilms.mp4?d=25
via:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/spainfulfilms
This feed doesnt work in FireAnt or any aggregator that
currently uses
typical file extention detection of media format (since often mime
types
in
feeds are not accurate).
Should'nt we get feedburner to modify it so its more
cross-compatible
(such
as ending the url with .ext)? This is annoying and even
though not
technically wrong to do on feedburner's part, they should have
taken
this
issue into consideration before breaking direct media urls like
this. I
dont want to write new code to handle 'special' direct media url
formats.
The file name still has a .mp4 extenstion. The ?id=25 is the query
string.
Without knowing for sure I'm guessing that FireANT fails because it
doesn't follow redirects (the URL responds with a 302 header
that points
to the original video URL.
So Feedburner has a correct filename ending in .mp4 and they are
even
sending the correct mime type (video/mp4). If an aggregator
doesn't work
with these URLs the aggregator needs to use a proper HTTP library.
Setting
up limitations like video files must have a file extension and
you
cannot use redirects are more than a little silly.
This isn't a case of having to write special software to handle
these
special URLs. These are normal URLs and if the software was
using HTTP
correctly (following redirects, breaking apart filename from query
string
before checking for file extension) there would be no problems.
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