[mythtv-users] CVS wget gzip problem

[Brad Fritz]

Nathan,

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 04:23:06AM -0800, Nathan Elliott wrote:

> I am using wget 1.9.1.  I tried both installing wget from RPM, and compiling
> it from source.    

[..]
> Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80...
> connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
> Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80...
> connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: unspecified [text/xml]
> 
>     [<=>
> ] 0             --.--K/s
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
>     [ <=>
> ] 33,580        --.--K/s
> 
> 
> Cannot write to `xtvdService' (Broken pipe).

Is there a proxy server between your mythtv backend and zap2it.com?
If so, it might be silently decoding the gzip data and confusing wget.

That's just speculation based on these two mailing list postings:

  http://gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/21602?do=post_view_threaded#21602
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/07/msg00751.html

It would be interesting to compare wget debug output with HTTP headers
from your host with those in the mythtv-dev posting.

--Brad