[mythtv-users] MythVideo and IMDB

[John Danner]

IMDB blocks unknown user agents, however MythVideo sends a user agent header,
"User-Agent: Mozilla/9.876 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686, en)" to be exact.

> > When using MythVideo and trying to connect to IMDB to get video 
> > information, I get the following error:  Failed to contact server

I'm not seeing this issue, where does this error appear?

-John



---------- Original Message -----------
From: Martin Moeller <martin at martinm-76.dk>
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: 08 Jun 2003 01:55:03 +0200
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo and IMDB

> Just a guess, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did User-Agent
> blocking. w3m for instance works fine.
> 
> /Martin.
> 
> lør, 2003-06-07 kl. 23:54 skrev 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?
> > 
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