[mythtv-users] MythVideo and IMDB

Aaron Stewart acs at hourglassone.com
Sat Jun 7 19:24:29 EDT 2003


If you were to read the body (rather than the header) of the message
that comes back when you use a non-standard UAgent, you'd note that it
describes in rather heavy detail how to download the entire database via
ftp and install it locally for personal use :).

Cheers,
Aaron

On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 16:08, Nathan Poznick wrote:
> Thus spake Adam Biskobing:
> > When using MythVideo and trying to connect to IMDB to get video 
> > information, I get the following error:  Failed to contact server
> > 
> > I watched a netstat as it was trying to connect, and it looks like it is 
> > trying to connect to us.vdc.imdb.com, which looks to be the same as 
> > www.imdb.com.  I can connect to it just fine in IE, but when trying to 
> > connect to this with wget I get a 403 FORBIDDEN response.  Any idea why 
> > this isn't working?
> 
> Well, from the 403 error, I would assume that IMDb is blocking access if
> a valid User-Agent header isn't given by the client.
> 
> kraken at tao:~$ telnet us.imdb.com 80
> Trying 207.171.166.140...
> Connected to us.vdc.imdb.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GET /Title?0114746 HTTP/1.0
> 
> HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
> ... lots of other crap, including an explanation about a User-Agent
> header.
> 
> kraken at tao:~$ telnet us.imdb.com 80
> Trying 207.171.166.140...
> Connected to us.vdc.imdb.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GET /Title?0114746 HTTP/1.0
> User-Agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.4b)
> Gecko/20030508"
> 
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> ... the page
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Nathan Poznick <poznick at conwaycorp.net>
> 
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