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<blockquote data-quote="SkydeOption" data-source="post: 219395" data-attributes="member: 26512">Don't use proxy...I have a direct internet connection (should have mentioned that, sorry)Thanks for the suggestion, though. AppreciatedI have been spending the morning in the company of my good friend &quot;HTTP Analyzer V2&quot; and he's given some insights.First it became clear that the issue is not limited to TVSeries. Exactly the same happens for IMDB lookup in Movie Database, for Weather lookup and for &quot;Now Playing&quot; lookups (none of which I use very often).Secondly it became clear that the 403 error was accompanied by a little text reading:This text - it appears (after a quick google) is courtesy of the MICT (Ministry of Information and Communication Technology) which governs the InterWebs in the country where i reside.Clearly there is nothing improper or obscene about TVDB, IMDB, LastFM or the weatherchannel, and this is confirmed by the fact that all the requests that are denied to MediaPortals various parts, are all served correctly if issuing them through a webbrowser (IE or FF was tested). MediaPortal is NOT allowed to talk to these sites, but a web browser IS allowed, meaning it cannot be the hostnames that are causing the problem, it MUST be something elseLooking at either of the various request shows a major difference between what MP and for example FF sends. Example:FireFox Request:&nbsp;&nbsp; GET /interfaces/GetLanguages.php HTTP/1.1&nbsp;&nbsp; Host: <a href="http://www.thetvdb.com" target="_blank">www.thetvdb.com</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11&nbsp;&nbsp; Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5&nbsp;&nbsp; Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5&nbsp;&nbsp; Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate&nbsp;&nbsp; Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7&nbsp;&nbsp; Keep-Alive: 300&nbsp;&nbsp; Connection: keep-aliveMediaPortal (TVSeries) Request:&nbsp;&nbsp; GET /interfaces/GetLanguages.php HTTP/1.1&nbsp;&nbsp; Host: <a href="http://www.thetvdb.com" target="_blank">www.thetvdb.com</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; Connection: Keep-AliveObviously the governments packet filters feels something is wrong,- or rather that something is missing,- from the MP request and my first buck in on the User-Agent string....So,- how do I go about enhancing the headers (adding a User-Agent string would probably do) of MediaPortal's HTTP request ?Am I screwed ?Any help is greatly appreciated.Thanks and Rgds.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SkydeOption, post: 219395, member: 26512"] [b]Don't use proxy...[/b] I have a direct internet connection (should have mentioned that, sorry) Thanks for the suggestion, though. Appreciated I have been spending the morning in the company of my good friend "HTTP Analyzer V2" and he's given some insights. First it became clear that the issue is not limited to TVSeries. Exactly the same happens for IMDB lookup in Movie Database, for Weather lookup and for "Now Playing" lookups (none of which I use very often). Secondly it became clear that the 403 error was accompanied by a little text reading: This text - it appears (after a quick google) is courtesy of the MICT (Ministry of Information and Communication Technology) which governs the InterWebs in the country where i reside. Clearly there is nothing improper or obscene about TVDB, IMDB, LastFM or the weatherchannel, and this is confirmed by the fact that all the requests that are denied to MediaPortals various parts, are all served correctly if issuing them through a webbrowser (IE or FF was tested). MediaPortal is NOT allowed to talk to these sites, but a web browser IS allowed, meaning it cannot be the hostnames that are causing the problem, it MUST be something else Looking at either of the various request shows a major difference between what MP and for example FF sends. Example: [B]FireFox Request:[/B] [I] GET /interfaces/GetLanguages.php HTTP/1.1 Host: [url]www.thetvdb.com[/url] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive[/I] [B]MediaPortal (TVSeries) Request:[/B] [I] GET /interfaces/GetLanguages.php HTTP/1.1 Host: [url]www.thetvdb.com[/url] Connection: Keep-Alive[/I] Obviously the governments packet filters feels something is wrong,- or rather that something is missing,- from the MP request and my first buck in on the User-Agent string.... So,- how do I go about enhancing the headers (adding a User-Agent string would probably do) of MediaPortal's HTTP request ? Am I screwed ? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks and Rgds. [/QUOTE]

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