Unlikely you'll get a definitive answer paul. I think the team are not focussed on these open tech channels, and mood music is not good for ongoing support via this list, sorry.
I can say there is no obvious change done here that has led to this, but since it doesn't materially affect one of the "products" I doubt there will be further probing. This email is sent on a purely personal capacity. I don't work in the area involved, just like all that backstage stood for. An old hippy at heart, Ant Paul Webster <p...@dabdig.com> wrote: >Hmmm ... if I modify my script to always give a user-agent something like >"Mozilla/5.0" then it always works. >If I don't (so it goes out with a user-agent something like ... Lynx) then >sometimes I do not get the correct opening >section of the XML. > >Paul Webster > >On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:03:54 +0100, you wrote: > >>I'm not certain of this one yet - but from some overnight error messages on >>my system it looks like the /programmes XML >>generator is sometimes not including the <service></service> section that >>usually appears near the start. >> >>Usually starts something like this: >><?xml version="1.0"?> >><schedule> >> <service type="radio" key="radiodevon"> >> <title>BBC Radio Manchester</title> >> </service> >>but I had some arrive without the <service> section. >> >>I need to do some more investigation to be sure - bubt maybe someone at BBC >>would know if there have been recent changes >>that could effect URLs like this >>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiomanchester/programmes/schedules/2012/07/05.xml >>(note - it doesn't happen all of the time) >> >>Paul Webster >> >>- >>Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please >>visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. >>Unofficial list archive: >>http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > >- >Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please >visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. >Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
