[mythtv-users] Mythvideo/IMDB script not working [Bump]

[Mark Cooper]

Stephen Tait wrote:

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>> wget -d 'http://www.imdb.com/find?;q=akira' -O - | wc
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>> David
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> Aye, already tried wget. Quelle suprise, host not found, word count 
> therefore zero. This is *really* confusing. Browsing the site is 
> *perfect* under links2 from the exact same machine. Utterly mind 
> boggled. All I can assume is that they're blocking unrecognised user 
> agents (although this might be defined to a "correct" value by one of 
> the PERL modules...?) to people browsing from the UK... but I doubt it.
> 
> Is there anyone else in the UK who has encountered this problem?

Nope, works for me.

You got a proxy configured for links? Try running the command using 
strace and you should be able to trace why its failing...

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Mark Cooper
http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/ - Open Source PVR Hardware Database