Re: Odd Podcast behaviour?

On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 12:26 +0000, Dr. Curt 'Mex' Nicol D.D. Ph.D.
wrote:
> Hi
> 
> >> I just get an 'Unable to parse the feed contents' error, the rest are
> >> all OK though. I don't recall doing an update, so not sure why it has
> >> suddenly broke. Both feeds work fine in gPodder.
> >
> > Because the people hosting those podcasts broke it. Tell them that this
> > isn't how you implement gzip compression in HTTP.
> 
> But it seems to work everywhere other than Rythmbox, other platforms
> seem unaffected (I put a post abut it on their BB, nobody else
> reported an error), and I can get it fine on gPodder (which I am using
> until this problem is fixed).

gvfs was ignoring the content-encoding property, and not decompressing
it for us. The headers in the HTTP communication were correct.

This is a bug in gvfs:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664200

Cheers

PS: In the future, reply to the list, not to me