Q: Could it be that iTunes 12.3.3.17 has problems dealing with HTTP/1.1 redirects (302) for podcasts?
Ever since upgrading to iTunes 12.3.3.7 (and El Capitan), all my podcasts from a particular site no longer download.
I have many other podcasts (from other sources) which have no download issues at all.
The little download cloud appears at the right in my list, and when I click on it I get the "!" on the left of the podcast, which tells me:
I tried accessing the podcast from another device (PC) and the podcast is all fine.
Reinstalled iTunes, recreated the iTunes .xml file, no change.
Unsubscribe, delete, resubscribe. Tried many things. Nothing helps.
Then I decided to launch Wireshark to see what was happening, and came to the conclusion iTunes seems to have a problem with a redirect it gets from the website.
The HTTP/1.1 request from iTunes asks to GET http://rf.proxycast.org/1153838588270485504/16256-18.04.2016-ITEMA_20963865-0.mp 3
which is an empty page
The server responds with a 302 redirect to http://media.radiofrance-podcast.net/podcast09/16256-18.04.2016-ITEMA_20963865-0 .mp3
which it the podcast indeed.
So my guess is that iTunes has trouble dealing with this redirect. Unless it is something else, but I don't know what.
Any ideas?
The full conversation is here:
GET /1153838588270485504/16256-18.04.2016-ITEMA_20963865-0.mp3 HTTP/1.1
Host: rf.proxycast.org
Accept: */*
User-Agent: iTunes/12.3.3 (Macintosh; OS X 10.11.4) AppleWebKit/601.5.17.1
Connection: close
Cache-Control: no-cache
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 19:41:03 GMT
Server: Apache
Set-Cookie: e=VxkszwqAhy0AAB3ncdEAAAID; path=/; expires=Tue, 16-May-17 19:41:03 GMT; domain=.proxycast.org
p3p: policyref="/w3c/p3p.xml",CP="NON DSP COR CURa PSA PSD OUR BUS NAV STA"
Location: http://media.radiofrance-podcast.net/podcast09/16256-18.04.2016-ITEMA_20963865-0 .mp3
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Posted on Apr 21, 2016 1:27 PM
