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Guide is showing "Paris and Versailles (Saint-Saens and Bizet)". That was last week. Today is Madrid & Belgrade (Albeniz, De Falla, Mokranjac)

Readers of this forum may care to take a look at this article on ITWire...

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15371/1085/ :(

It's not a Leopard issue as I have Tiger 10.4.10 and have no IceGuide Since 10.30 this morning

... I am running 2.5.1 and Mac OS X Leopard but it was working perfectly until last Friday. Sounds like a server problem to me if everyone is getting the same error...

Zarbs

My EyeTV Guide shows zilch, nada, nothing!

I having the same problem, I now have SBS and ABC only, and no content for them.
A couple of days ago I noticed that TEN had dropped off the guide, but thought it would most likely come back. Now I've got nothing!!

55 minutes to be precise. >:( >:( >:(
Of course, my 40 minutes of padding was insufficient. I ended up downloading a torrent of the Torchwood episode.
All disgruntled viewers should ring channel 10 and complain about these ridiculously long over-runs.

I added 2 hours to it and did get it! However they're bumping it to 12 am Wednesday mornings according to http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EElVAVFkAyggeAGLRg&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyle

NICK

I have examined the raw XML for this week's feed (actually taken from 7th through 7 days) and notice that the GMT values in the 'start' and 'stop' tags of the 'programme' tag are wrong on Sunday 29th (the day the world ends...?). Whilst I can correct this in my programs, I have noticed that all guides such as the JustEPG TAP for Topfield are all wrong on this Sunday - before DST starts, times before are correct and times after are wrong. After the user adjusts for DST, Sunday is still wrong.

Eg. ABC News on 28/10 is 20061028093000 +0000 (7PM ACST in Adelaide) but on 29/10 is given as 20061029093000 + 0000 which works out at 8PM ACDST, clearly wrong. It should be 20061029083000 + 0000 (because the program does actually begin an hour earlier, GMT)

Comments anyone?

NICK

Love your work Ice Man!
Some of your comments on Current Affairs shows (as well as certain News Programs) are brilliant.

Check out the description for 'Business Sunday'!

Actually you can get 8 days: but they're incomplete - ABC, ABC2 and SBS come to the party but the commercials do not.

I use the JustEPG tap for the Topfield and this now allows viewing 8 days when available. (Eg I was able to see what followed on from 'Rocket Man' on the ABC the following week (Dr Who - as if I didn't know that already!!!)

NICK

Thanks for that. I tried the

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http://username:password@iceguide... format using Firefox and it gets the file no worries. I'll plug it into my code in the next day or so and report back.

Cheers

NICK

EDIT 11/7

Yes, that worked in code as well: the httpget method of this com-addin is synchronous so the whole thing will work unattended if necessary.

I just checked the RFC for the URI: it appears that the usage username:password@domain is deprecated (for the obvious reason that in a get request the password would be visible to the user. That's not an issue for me as the user will never see the username or password.).

I wonder if anyone can help here.

I currently have an Access database setup to download the ICE XML file using webget, and parse it using the ChilkatXml COM add in.

I have just noticed that this COM-addin has a "httpget" method, which is probably a better way of  getting the data rather than using

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shell webget.exe [address of xml file], as the shell command in VBA executes asynchronously and sometimes the file has not downloaded before I wish to proceed with the next program step.

Trouble is, I can plug in the http address but how do I put in user name and password without having to enter it at runtime? The documentation only has the parameters

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&start_date=<date>; · &end_date=<date> · &late_mod=<last modified time>; · &no_programs=1 etc. Are there other parameters that can be added to this cgi? (I think that it should be

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last_mod shouldn't it?)

Any help appreciated!

NICK