Hello, gPodder users and developers! After long consideration phases, I've implemented a new downloader in the last few days, which I have now commited into our subversion repository after a few tests and improvements.
The new downloader removes the dependency on "wget" and uses Python's "urllib" module, which is included in the standard distribution. Apart from the removed dependency, this also simplifies the download-related code in our codebase and makes progress updates more reliable and smooth. Just in time with the new downloading code, I've also added User-agent support to gPodder, which means gPodder will send a User-Agent string to webservers to identify itself as gPodder (with version), and also send a referer string (feed URL) when downloading episodes. Now, it's up to you to test and report back how it works for you. Tell me what you think and test it with your podcast feeds! If everything seems to work well, the next gPodder release should be ready in a few days, and will be a HUGE step forward compared to the last version. Thomas _______________________________________________ gpodder-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel
