Public bug reported: Podcast episodes whose URLs contain a double-slash in the query string are not downloaded. The path is converted to a single slash in the HTTP request.
To reproduce, try subscribing to Leo Laporte's "This Week in Tech" at http://leo.am/podcasts/twit The episodes whose URLs contain a double slash, like http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://aolradio.podcast.aol.com/twit/TWiT0054H.mp3 fail to download. Right clicking on the episode and selecting the details tab shows the correct URL. Ethereal shows that the following HTTP conversation takes place: HEAD /pts/redirect.mp3?http:/twit.ord.cachefly.net/FLOSS-006.mp3 HTTP/1.1 Host: www.podtrac.com User-Agent: gnome-vfs/2.14.1 neon/0.25.4 Connection: TE TE: trailers HTTP/1.1 404 Invalid Destination URL Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 17:00:13 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Cache-Control: private Content-Type: text/html 0 Using Firefox to download that URL works fine, and produces the following exchange: GET /pts/redirect.mp3?http://twit.ord.cachefly.net/FLOSS-006.mp3 HTTP/1.1 Host: www.podtrac.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060523 Ubuntu/dapper Firefox/1.5.0.3 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 HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 17:00:19 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322 Location: http://twit.ord.cachefly.net/FLOSS-006.mp3 Cache-Control: private Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 159 <html><head><title>Object moved</title></head><body> <h2>Object moved to <a href='http://twit.ord.cachefly.net/FLOSS-006.mp3'>here</a>.</h2> </body></html> Note the conversion of the "//" to "/" in the query string of the first case. I'm running Rhythmbox 0.9.3.1 on Ubuntu Dapper. I'm not sure if the problem is in Gnome-VFS or Rhythmbox ** Affects: rhythmbox (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal Priority: (none set) Status: Unconfirmed -- Rhythmbox fails to download many podcasts https://launchpad.net/bugs/46799 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs