Opened 10 years ago

Closed 4 years ago

#12976 closed Bug Report - General (Trac EOL)

Channel Icons not being downloaded from www.lyngsat-logo.com

Reported by: Nigel Owned by: Stuart Auchterlonie
Priority: minor Milestone: 29.2
Component: Services - Icon Downloads Version: 0.28.0
Severity: low Keywords:
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

Install of 0.28, mythtv-setup seems to have tried downloading a package of Australian channel icons, but each one contains HTML errors like : 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Forbidden</h1>
<p>You don't have permission to access /hires/aa/abc1_au.png
on this server.<br />
</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache Server at www.lyngsat-logo.com Port 80</address>
</body></html>

Change History (13)

comment:1 by grandmastermarclar@…, 10 years ago

I think this is down to the user agent; it's either not being sent, or it's not acceptable to www.lyngsat-logo.com

comment:2 by Stuart Auchterlonie, 10 years ago

Component: MythTV - Mythtv-setup → Services - Icon Downloads

It wants a referrer header which a browser would send if it were looking at the web page for the logo....

comment:3 by Stuart Auchterlonie, 10 years ago

Owner: changed from Nigel to Stuart Auchterlonie
Status: new → assigned

in reply to:  1 comment:4 by Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster@…>, 10 years ago

Replying to grandmastermarclar@…:

I think this is down to the user agent; it's either not being sent, or it's not acceptable to www.lyngsat-logo.com

This was discussed on the -users list, and Matt Mossholder identified that the site is now requiring appropriate referrer headers to work.

They have apparently chosen to require appropriate referrer headers (presumably to provide a (small) impediment to those not accessing the data directly via their web site for personal use).

Someone is going to have to contact lyngsat directly to determine if they have alternative approved mechanisms to access their logos via programmatic mechanisms, or whether their site is no longer supported for that type of access (and MythTV should remove support for them). Their logos, their rules.

in reply to:  1 comment:5 by Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster@…>, 10 years ago

Replying to grandmastermarclar@…:

I think this is down to the user agent; it's either not being sent, or it's not acceptable to www.lyngsat-logo.com

This was discussed on the -users list, and Matt Mossholder identified that the site is now requiring appropriate referrer headers to work.

They have apparently chosen to require appropriate referrer headers (presumably to provide a (small) impediment to those not accessing the data directly via their web site for personal use).

Someone is going to have to contact lyngsat directly to determine if they have alternative approved mechanisms to access their logos via programmatic mechanisms, or whether their site is no longer supported for that type of access (and MythTV should remove support for them). Their logos, their rules.

comment:6 by Stuart Auchterlonie, 9 years ago

Milestone: 29.0 → 29.1

comment:7 by Roger Siddons <rsiddons@…>, 9 years ago

In 3b6c0d4d63f023676ad1e147e75f7c79e9286b1c/mythtv:

Error: Processor CommitTicketReference failed
GIT backend not available

comment:8 by Roger Siddons <rsiddons@…>, 9 years ago

In b3aa4b51b94177033739728cb6fc1d9d98da62a5/mythtv:

Error: Processor CommitTicketReference failed
GIT backend not available

comment:9 by Stuart Auchterlonie, 9 years ago

Milestone: 29.1 → 0.28.2

Moving remaining open tickets to 0.28.2 milestone

comment:10 by Stuart Auchterlonie, 9 years ago

Milestone: 0.28.2 → 29.2

Moving remaining open tickets to 29.2 milestone

comment:11 by mitch.capper@…, 9 years ago

Have we considered using alternate sources? Schedules direct, for example, gives logo links right in the feed.

in reply to:  11 comment:12 by anonymous@…, 9 years ago

Replying to mitch.capper@…:

Have we considered using alternate sources? Schedules direct, for example, gives logo links right in the feed.

Those with a Schedules Direct subscription can get the logo references with their subscriptions today, and load them with a number of solutions, but not everyone is a Schedules Direct subscriber, and the channel icons are (of course) limited to those locations that Schedules Direct supports (which is not the entire world). The challenge, as before, is a good source of unencumbered logos (technically, in many jurisdictions (and especially the US), the station logos are copyrighted material, and require a license to redistribute). While many stations might be happy for you to reference their logos, someone has to do the legwork to acquire legal authorization. Are you willing and able to do that legwork?

comment:13 by Stuart Auchterlonie, 4 years ago

Resolution: → Trac EOL
Status: assigned → closed

We have moved all bug tracking to github [1]

If you continue to have this issue, please open a new issue at github, referencing this ticket.

[1] - ​https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues

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