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Old 03-11-2011, 12:22 AM
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Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders


Fri 11March2011 @ 6:20PM (Sydney time):
The iView page works fine, but iViewNapper / Batch Downloader cannot get the catalog/index file.

I guess I need to sniff the iView page http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/recent

The catalog file (20Kb only) seems to be binary - possibly GZIP compressed?
[EDIT]
The file is not opened using standard compresion utilities, but I recall an article by Rick Strahl from a while back which shows what to do on the client side (most browsers will deflate web pages with GZIP encoding without problem, he says).

http://www.west-wind.com/Weblog/posts/102969.aspx

This online tool proves the stituation:

http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php

If the iView catalog/index URL (http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/api2/?seriesIndex) is pasted into it, it is unpacked to JSON code.

That is the problem.

Last edited by gxdata : 03-11-2011 at 01:59 AM. Reason: gzip/deflation problem
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