Dear MP3.com, I haven't found better e-mail address on your web site. I suppose this should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I found only [EMAIL PROTECTED] So I am CC-ing, hopefuly someone with technical insight will read this. I am really not interested in buying anything from you or selling anything to you, not mentioning suing you like RIAA ;-) I am author of Arachne, WWW browser for DOS and Linux. My browser can have 10 to 100 000 users worldwide. I admit that only few thousands may have good and cheap connectivity, that's true. Arache used to be DOS-only, which means that users were able to play downloaded MP3 files using DOS MP3 players, but due to single-task nature of Arachne and lack of native audio and MP3 support in Arachne, they were not able to stream the songs. However, I believe that streaming lo-fi MP3 files is what is really the coolest thing on Internet ! Now, I have release Arachne for Linux - it is SVGAlib, not X11 based, and it allows comfortable launching of mpg123, standard Linux console MP3 player which allows streaming. mpg123 runs in background, while Arachne users browse net - I think it is cool! Especially because they can do it on much less powerful PCs then when using Windows or Linux/X11... The problem is, that if I click on lo-fi stream link on MP3.com, I am asked to fill e-mail address - then CGI is called, which generates cookie, and then I can start various streams with this cookie. Ok. I know what cookies are, I have implemented them in Arachne long time ago, and it works. But your CGI scripts works only for Netscape/MSIE: when asking for e-mail cookies with Arahcne, all I get is some weir error message, saying something like - 200 OK - Error, you don't right to acess... something... etc. Luckily, I have found out, that there is one more CGI script which can give me the cookie - at chooser.mp3.com, rahter than download.mp3.com. With cookie from chooser.mp3.com, I was able to play all streams at MP3.com!!! I wrote to documentation, that Arachne users have to manually create cookie "[EMAIL PROTECTED]; domain=.mp3.com; path=/" (users can very easily edit Archne cookies file...). However, this is not very comforable. I know that my browser processes cookies correctlly, because it works with one of your two CGI scripts, and it works with manualy written cookie. Arachne receives m3u file as audio/x-mpegurl, and passes given URL quite hapilly to mpg123, and I can listen to you streams. But it would be much more comfortable for Arachne users, if your CGI scripts won't hang when being called from Arachne instead of Netscape :( I think the problem may be that Arachne WWW browser sends header line "Accept: */*" to show, that all MIME types are accepted ? Maye your script is checking which MIME types are supported ? Or something simillar ? I am sending copy of this e-mail also to mailing list of Arachne developers.... -- http://arachne.cz/ (Arachne WWW browser for DOS+Linux / Webhosting / MP3streaming)
