[isf-wifidog] iTunes

[Alexandre Carmel-Veilleux]

Try a bog-standard 500, try again....

Alex
On 2/28/06, Mina Naguib <mina at naguib.ca> wrote:
>
> Only for the sake of scientific achievement :-)
>
> Et voila:
>      User-Agent: iTunes/6.0.3 (Macintosh; N; PPC)\r\n
>
> I'll try to run the same test from a windows iTunes client to make
> sure the identification is similar, then start testing whether a TCP
> connection close/HTTP reply code (4xx/5xx families) is handled the
> best by iTunes.
>
> On 28-Feb-06, at 5:09 PM, Michael Lenczner wrote:
>
> > <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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