disregard.
On 3/16/06, Michael Sullivan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Josh,
i tried it in version 1.0.1.72
error message was:
fireant was unable to recognize any media files in this enclosure etc...
On 3/16/06, Joshua Kinberg < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Could you give me a RSS URL that uses this?
I have never encountered this issue here. We should still be able to
download the files using that URL convention.
-Josh
On 3/16/06, Andreas Haugstrup < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:17:15 +0100, Michael Sullivan
> < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > ie. http://feeds.feedburner.com/spainfulfilms.mp4?d=25
> > via:
> > http://feeds.feedburner.com/spainfulfilms
> >
> > This feed doesnt work in FireAnt or any aggregator that currently uses
> > typical file extention detection of media format (since often mime types
> > in
> > feeds are not accurate).
> >
> > Should'nt we get feedburner to modify it so its more cross-compatible
> > (such
> > as ending the url with .ext)? This is annoying and even though not
> > technically wrong to do on feedburner's part, they should have taken this
> > issue into consideration before breaking direct media urls like this. I
> > dont want to write new code to handle 'special' direct media url formats.
>
> The file name still has a .mp4 extenstion. The ?id=25 is the query string.
> Without knowing for sure I'm guessing that FireANT fails because it
> doesn't follow redirects (the URL responds with a 302 header that points
> to the original video URL.
>
> So Feedburner has a correct filename ending in .mp4 and they are even
> sending the correct mime type (video/mp4). If an aggregator doesn't work
> with these URLs the aggregator needs to use a proper HTTP library. Setting
> up limitations like "video files must have a file extension" and "you
> cannot use redirects" are more than a little silly.
>
> This isn't a case of having to write special software to handle these
> special URLs. These are normal URLs and if the software was using HTTP
> correctly (following redirects, breaking apart filename from query string
> before checking for file extension) there would be no problems.
>
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