[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #8986: mythfilldatabase hangs on MacOS in QFSFileEnginePrivate::nativeRead

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 09/28/2010 09:38 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>  On 09/28/2010 12:40 AM, MythTV wrote:
>> #8986: mythfilldatabase hangs on MacOS in 
>> QFSFileEnginePrivate::nativeRead
>>
>> Comment (by Andy Stevenson<lists@…>):
>>
>>   I'm using SchedulesDirect in the US, for which I believe 
>> mythfilldatabase
>>   uses wget (streaming to stdout).
>
> If wget or its execution is the issue, ideally we'd fix it by dumping 
> the wget usage and downloading with one of the 
> newer-than-datadirect.cpp, better, Qt-based MythTV classes that can 
> handle HTTP downloads (MythDownloadManager?).  That may require adding 
> cookie and/or PUT support,

Oops...  The other P method--POST.  And it turns out that 
MythDownloadManager does have POST support.

So, looks like it would require hooking up cookie support, as well as 
one I forgot:  401 handling.  That said, the Qt classes on which 
MythDownloadManager is built support all the required functionality.

Mike