Need help with tvsubtitles.net (1 Viewer)

[Mr.Heckles]

Three days ago everything was fine. I could retrieve subtitles with no problems whatsoever. Now something happened. I can choose tvsubtitles, I can see "retrive subtitles" window and I can press this button. I even can choose what kind of subtitles to download. Then I press "download" and here you are: "no subtitles found". SubSeries works so does Remository. Is something wrong with tvsubtitles.net ? And is there any way to fix it? Please...

 

[Zteven]

I tried to find out what is going wrong with Fiddler (a web debugger). Apparently tvsubtitles.net doesn't like deep links. If you follow the links at the website you get to a page with a big green button named 'download'. If you press it, it starts the download of a zip file. If you paste the url of the button in the addressbar however, it redirects you to Mobile manuals - Mobile-manual.com, a site with only advertisements. It is a mystery to me how the site can distinguish between a manually clicked link and the link requested directly. The effect however is that mp-tvseries tries the deep link, gets to the bogus site and concludes that nothing useful was downloaded.

Bye,
Steven

 

[moryoav]

Same problem here. Can this be solved? Maybe switch to a different subtitle website?

I tried to find out what is going wrong with Fiddler (a web debugger). Apparently tvsubtitles.net doesn't like deep links. If you follow the links at the website you get to a page with a big green button named 'download'. If you press it, it starts the download of a zip file. If you paste the url of the button in the addressbar however, it redirects you to Mobile manuals - Mobile-manual.com, a site with only advertisements. It is a mystery to me how the site can distinguish between a manually clicked link and the link requested directly. The effect however is that mp-tvseries tries the deep link, gets to the bogus site and concludes that nothing useful was downloaded.

Bye,
Steven

 

[frenzy]

Same here. We need a fix. Tvsubtitles.net has the most comprehensive collection of subs.

 

[ltfearme]

Here is the code: tvsubtitles.cs - mptvseries - Project Hosting on Google Code

If you know what to do to fix it, I will make the changes. I personally dont use subtitles nor wrote that bit of code but am happy to integrate any patch and give it a a test before making a new release.

I have also asked zeflash the original creator of that class to take a look if he has a chance.

 

[frenzy]

Copying/translating the answer I got in another forum from parsifal

According to the implementation of the method WebClient.DownloadFile that is called in the code, 2 definitions are accepted, address and filename. You need something more low-level, that allows for a kind of spoofing: That is, to adjust the field "referrer" of HTTP GET request that is to be sent. For example [1].

If it helps and someone knows what to do with it, go ahead

 

[MageMinds]

Here is the code that should work... Only one line to add I made it bold and left some before and after code for you to see where to put it. I'm not 100% sure that will work, but it's a start. We need to set the Referer and this is exactly what this does. I did not check all the code, I assume the sDownloadUrl is equal to something like "http://tvsubtitles.net/subtitle-82387.html" at the moment we do the Headers.Add

265              Match selected = Selected.m_Tag as Match;
266              String sDownloadUrl = m_sBaseUrl + selected.Groups[1].Value;
[b]add              client.Headers.Add("Referer", sDownloadUrl);[/b]
267              sDownloadUrl = sDownloadUrl.Replace("/subtitle", "/download");

I use subtitles ALL the time and this was a shock to me when it stoped working. I'm glad I could help if it works...

MageMinds

 

[ltfearme]

Was an easy fix, thanks for the investigation guys. We just need to add the referer.

 

[moryoav]

Beta version coming?

Could you include this fix in some beta version for us to test? I volunteer to be a Beta tester...

 

[ltfearme]

I will be releasing another maintenance release shortly for v2.3.