[mythtv-users] CVS wget gzip problem

[Simon Kilvington]

this looks like the problem:

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized

do you need a username/password either for zap2it.com or for any web
proxy you have to go through?

Brad Fritz wrote:
> Nathan,
> 
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 04:23:06AM -0800, Nathan Elliott wrote:
> 
> 
>>I am using wget 1.9.1.  I tried both installing wget from RPM, and compiling
>>it from source.    
> 
> 
> [..]
> 
>>Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80...
>>connected.
>>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
>>Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80...
>>connected.
>>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>>Length: unspecified [text/xml]
>>
>>    [<=>
>>] 0             --.--K/s
>>gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
>>    [ <=>
>>] 33,580        --.--K/s
>>
>>
>>Cannot write to `xtvdService' (Broken pipe).
> 
> 
> Is there a proxy server between your mythtv backend and zap2it.com?
> If so, it might be silently decoding the gzip data and confusing wget.
> 
> That's just speculation based on these two mailing list postings:
> 
>   http://gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/21602?do=post_view_threaded#21602
>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/07/msg00751.html
> 
> It would be interesting to compare wget debug output with HTTP headers
> from your host with those in the mythtv-dev posting.
> 
> --Brad
> 
> 
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