[mythtv-commits] Ticket #11910: TV Metadata Lookup Fails

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#11910: TV Metadata Lookup Fails
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 Reporter:  Steven Côté <steven.cote@…>  |          Owner:  wagnerrp
     Type:  Bug Report - General         |         Status:  new
 Priority:  minor                        |      Milestone:  unknown
Component:  Bindings - Python            |        Version:  0.27-fixes
 Severity:  medium                       |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tvdb                         |  Ticket locked:  0
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Comment (by Steven Côté <steven.cote@…>):

 The forum discussion that the upstream patch referred to goes into a lot
 of detail.
 http://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12909

 The tl;dr version is that depending where in the world you're making the
 query from, www.thetvdb.com isn't consistently translated into
 thetvdb.com. To answer why would require someone with superior knowledge
 of DNS than myself.

 It seems to have something to do with the reliability of cloudflare (who
 are tvdb's dns providers?). Looking at the forums, it looks like there's a
 bunch of new posts in and around the beginning of this month which is when
 I started having problems.

 For me personally (based in the UK), the tvdb script is timing out because
 it's unable to resolve the url with the "www" prefixed. I'll double check
 if it's the 503 http error mentioned in the forum that everyone else is
 reporting when I get home from work tonight.

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