Manager tools "members only" feed - 400 error downloading episodes
Manager tools (http://manager-tools.com) has a open feed, and then a members-only feed after you sign-up for free on their website.
This feed works find in gPodder on my desktop, but hasn't worked yet in DoggCatcher. The episode list downloads fine, but the media always fails.
The members-only feed wont download the mp3s. Every episode fails with a 400 error. When I type in the episode url into my browser, the mp3 downloads just fine. I suspect the problem is that while the feed is password protected, the individual mp3s are not. Perhaps DoggCatcher is sending a username/password where it's not wanted?
I can tell you for sure that DC if you configure a un/pw for a feed, that they are set in the headers both when updating the feeds and when fetching the media files. So if the host rejects the downloads because the un/pw are in the headers, that could be the problem.
There have been a small number (maybe 4-5) feeds in the past that have given 400 errors when trying to download the media files. I've never figured out what the problem is for them though. Since it works in the browser, I suspected that it was the user agent set by DC. In a couple cases, it fixed it, and in others it didn't. I also tried changing the user-agent in the browser to what DC identifies itself as.
This is pretty perplexing since DC is just making an http request, just like the browser. I don't see how the server is discriminating the connections.