[Bug 443317] [NEW] Feedparser cannot parse official EA.com podcast

[Thomas Perl]

Public bug reported:

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).

** Affects: feedparser (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Feedparser cannot parse official EA.com podcast
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