[isf-wifidog] iTunes

[Mina Naguib]

WiFiDog already handles a few "bad clients" we've seen that in early  
development caused problems.

If we can determine a specific header that iTunes sends (userAgent  
perhaps?) in it's request we could have WiFiDog not issue a redirect  
and instead serve specific content tailored to iTunes (or simply  
close the connection).

I'll subscribe to a couple of podcasts in iTunes to see if there's  
anything useful we could use.

On 28-Feb-06, at 4:30 PM, Francois Proulx wrote:

> Outch... I really don't know how we can prevent this. This is a  
> very very
> bad side effect of Wifidog not being connected when the  
> synchronisation
> starts automatically ....
>
>
> I can't think of a way to trap this, since it is using simple HTTP  
> GET...
> It appears iTunes decides to update the URL as soon as it receives  
> an HTTP
> Redirect. What's in the Wifidog HTTP header ? (HTTP 2XX code )
>
>
>> J'ai un petit problème avec mon lecteur de podcast (iTunes). Je
>> n'arrive plus à synchroniser mes podcasts à partir de chez moi.
>>
>> Il semble que lorsque j'ai fait une synchronisation dans un café où
>> j'utilisais Ile sans fil, il s'est passé quelque chose d'un peu
>> bizarre... tous les URLs utilisés par iTunes pour synchroniser mes
>> podcasts ont été remplacés par un autre URL.
>>
>> Par exemple:
>>
>> Avant: http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/newscast/rss.xml
>>
>> Après: https://auth.ilesansfil.org/login/?
>> gw_adress=192.168.8.1&gw_port=2060&gw_id=11&url=http%3A//www.cnn.com/
>> services/podcasting/newscast/rss.xml
>>
>> Il n'y a pas de commande dans iTunes me permettant de ramener ces
>> URLs à ce qu'ils étaient avant...
>>
>> Yanik
>>
>> English summary:
>>
>> No more Podcast synch from home using iTunes.
>>
>> All URLs associated with podcasts have been changed without any
>> manual intervention from myself.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> Before: http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/newscast/rss.xml
>>
>> After: https://auth.ilesansfil.org/login/?
>> gw_adress=192.168.8.1&gw_port=2060&gw_id=11&url=http%3A//www.cnn.com/
>> services/podcasting/newscast/rss.xml
>>
>>
>> The problem is that I can't reset anything manually. I have to re-
>> subscribe to every podcast and re-download everything as if the
>> previous and the new one are completly different.
>>
>> Very annoying.
>>
>> Yanik
>>
>>
>>
>>
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