[29.11.05] WebEPG 0.2.0 update on website (4 Viewers)

[robomonkey]

Heh cool, Ta

 

[Zyphrax]

As a Response to the 403 Forbidden problem of Artman. A lot of websites send 403 Forbidden when no valid User Agent was supplied. To fix that supply a User Agent as demonstrated below:

HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest) HttpWebRequest.Create("http://whatever.youlike.com");

webRequest.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"; 

webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse(); 
stream = webResponse.GetResponseStream();
streamReader = new StreamReader(stream, Encoding.ASCII);
pageHtml = streamReader.ReadToEnd();

In this C# example the WebRequest pretends to be an Internet Explorer browser. I had the same problem creating a Teletext grabber.

 

[James]

Hi Zyphrax,

WebEPG already sets a UserAgent, and pretends to be IE too.

/James

 

[Zyphrax]

ok, that's weird. The website Artman mentioned shouldn't be able to see the difference between a browser and the C# code.

 

[James]

Hi all,

New release today.

Beta 0.1.4 18/10/2005

Fixed:
- Problems with the time and date transitions.

Grabbers:
- UK directory renamed to GB (ISO standard).
- GB channel more 4 added.
- PT all channels added.
- NL tvgids.nl nows has 7 day guide data

As its been a long time coming there are mostly likely many other smaller changes that I cannot remeber.

Cheers,

/James

 

[Artman]

ok, that's weird. The website Artman mentioned shouldn't be able to see the difference between a browser and the C# code.

Zyphrax, did you mention the website http://gids.omroep.nl? If you did, the problem wasn't the user agent I think but a different way of getting the schedules from the database.

 

[James]

Hi Artman,

I'm a little lost about what is wrong, or if there is even a problem?

However, the http://gids.omroep.nl/ site would be good for getting the talpa and nick guide together. I have had a look at this site and believe it should be possible to make a config for WebEPG for this site.

Cheers,

/James

 

[tomtom21000]

Hi all,

New release today.

Beta 0.1.4 18/10/2005

Fixed:
- Problems with the time and date transitions.

Grabbers:
- UK directory renamed to GB (ISO standard).
- GB channel more 4 added.
- PT all channels added.
- NL tvgids.nl nows has 7 day guide data

As its been a long time coming there are mostly likely many other smaller changes that I cannot remeber.

Cheers,

/James

James, I believe your update is also in the cvs versions of mp? Cause I tried cvs from friday and am not sure if this contains your changes?
I still have minor problems with some german channels like no indo (südwest3) and false info like RTLII.
Have make some checks, but hardly find the time at the moment.

 

[James]

Hi Tom,

The CVS includes some files from WebEPG but not all. It now includes the grabber and channel directories in a new WebEPG directory. The webepg.dll is in the main mediaportal directory. This is due to the intergration of WebEPG into the new setup wizard.

The main programs are missing and need to be compiled seperatly.

So maybe try downloading the 0.1.4 package. I am very interested to know about any bugs.

I am seeing some very small time/date bugs coming up on some channels from fernsehen.ch.

Cheers,

/James

 

[wortelsoft]

Hi James the dutch channel yorin has changed there name in to RTL 7.
So the xml file needs to be changed. I've done this in my file and now everything works fine again.

old:
<entry name="yorin.nl">46</entry>

new:
<entry name="rtl7.nl">46</entry>