[isf-wifidog] iTunes

[Michael Lenczner]

<laughing>
I never thought I would hear the words "I'll subscribe to a couple of
podcasts in iTunes" come out of your mouth, mina.

:-D


On 2/28/06, Mina Naguib <mina at naguib.ca> wrote:
>
> 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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