[mythtv-users] question about news feed parsing

[Vincent McIntyre]

> Looks like they are using the Media RSS extension which we only
> partially support. We assume that anything in a media:content section is
> a video we can play but in this case they contain images. We should be
> using the 'medium' or 'type' attributes to filter out anything that is
> not a video but we don't. We do extract the 'type' but don't do anything
> with it. I would be easier to use the 'medium' attribute and just ignore
> anything that isn't a video. See
> http://www.rssboard.org/media-rss#media-content for details.
>

Thanks, I will take a look at the link.

In the meantime I discovered bug #11161 (and #7680) which looks like
it might be my issue. #11161 has a small patch available..

As peripheral information, I typed the URL for the full news item[2]
into mythweb and it loaded the page without issue, so it seems this is
more a mythnews thing than mythweb.

> At least you can download the feed it doesn't work at all here using
> master I get this error NewsSite: HTTP Protocol Error  Explanation: 0:
> Moved Permanently when I try.

Hm. Most web browsers just follow the redirect to the URL it returns
in such a case,
don't they? Below is the output from telnetting to the webserver.
Perhaps the forced disconnection is triggering this/

% telnet abc.net.au 80
Trying 203.2.218.214...
Connected to abc.net.au.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /news/feed/51120/rss.xml HTTP/1.1
Host: www.abc.net.au

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Connection: close
Location: http://www.abc.net.au/news/feed/51120/rss.xml

Connection closed by foreign host.

If I use the correct URL that they show above I get the content immediately.
Notice the different IP address for the server.

% telnet www.abc.net.au 80
Trying 203.13.161.10...
Connected to a1632.w7.akamai.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /news/feed/51120/rss.xml HTTP/1.1
Host: www.abc.net.au

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/rss+xml;charset=UTF-8
Content-Language: en-US
Expires: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:20:46 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store
Pragma: no-cache
... etc

Thanks for your comments.
Vince

[2] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-28/canada-appalled-sri-lanka-chosen-to-host-chogm/4655530