Feedparser cannot parse official EA.com podcast

[Thomas Perl]

The official EA Podcast at http://www.ea.com/rest/podcast cannot be parsed with feedparser, although it can be viewed from within Firefox and downloaded using wget. Some debugging with wireshark reveals that the "Accept:" header that is sent by the feedparser is not understood by the server correctly. Adding "*/* as additional accept type solves the problem and lets feedparser download the feed.

>>> import feedparser
>>> f = feedparser.parse('http://www.ea.com/rest/podcast')
>>> f
{'feed': {}, 'encoding': 'utf-8', 'bozo': 1, 'version': None, 'entries': [], 'bozo_exception': HTTPError()}
>>> print f.bozo_exception
HTTP Error 302: The HTTP server returned a redirect error that would lead to an infinite loop.
The last 30x error message was:
Found

I will attach a patch that fixes this wrong behaviour (although one might argue that the server is to blame).

[Kurt McKee (kurtmckee)]

I'm work on feedparser, and I've tested the EA podcast URL provided using svn trunk (r368). The server responds with a feed instead of HTTP 302.

Whoever has power to close this report, please do so. Thanks!

[Kurt McKee (kurtmckee)]

Can someone please close this bug report?