Re: tv_grab_na results different than in browser

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:04:44AM -0700, Jerry Veldhuis wrote:
> 
> Brian,

Hi Jerry,

>  Some days ago, you mentioned reason you could run tv_grab_na, then
> look in a browser and see different results was because the server
> was different.

Correct.

> I think you said the browser was going to
> tvlistings1.zap2it.com (or something else)

tvlistings.zap2it.com

> instead of tvlistings2.zap2it.com
> (which is what tv_grab_na uses).

Right.

> Can you clarify the change you made ?

I simply did a s/tvlistings2/tvlistings/g in ZapListings.pm.

> I've browsed to the zap2it site on a couple of occasions and I
> always get tvlistings2.zap2it.com, never anything different.

Interesting.  Try just changing the url in the url box.  I dunno how I
ever managed to navigate to tvlistings.zap2it.com.  I just did.  :-)

> Maybe its a browser/browser-version specific redirect.

Maybe.  I am using Galeon 1.2.6

> Are you getting consistant results using a change to the source url ?

Well, I was, until the hole in channel 17 that I described in my
previous message.  I switched back over to tvlistings2 and it is now
fetching it.  Hmmmm.

I wonder if we can take advantage of the two servers for redundancy.
If the data is unavailable on one server, try the other.

b.

-- 
Brian J. Murrell

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