Okay, I'm having a problem with the ADE script's poster processing (using PVD 0.9.9.16 with the most recent ADE script).
On one particular movie, the script engine goes into an infinite loop while trying to download the poster. The information bar at the bottom of the window pops up, says "Downoading from:" with the URL of the poster image, but never finishes. PVD seems to keep trying to download the image repeatedly, with the "bytes" value updating rapidly (mostly showing the value 39373, which I assume is the actual file size) until I click "Cancel" (or until ADE blocks the connection, which happens sometimes if the site gets hammered too much).
If I enable -debug mode and check the log, it shows PVD trying to GET: that image URL over and over and over.
If I try to open the URL directly in Firefox (pasting it into the address bar), the browser doesn't behave as expected. Where it would normally simply show the JPEG image in the Firefox window, instead it asks me whether I want to open or save the file. Same thing happens when I go to the ADE catalog page that has the picture embedded in it, right-click on it, and select "Show Image". If I DO save the image to a file when prompted, my regular JPEG viewer can open it without any problem.
Further research leads me to suspect that the website is passing the wrong MIME identification for the file when my computer requests it by HTTP, confusing PVD. But Firefox is still able to download the file, whereas PVD goes into an infinite loop trying to download it again and again. Whatever the problem is, Firefox handles it gracefully (it can still show the picture embedded in the parent webpage, after all) but PVD just chokes on it. It seems to happen very rarely, as this is the first time I've ever seen this problem.
Thing is, I don't see how to go about fixing this? As far as I can tell, the script is doing everything right in parsing the page and sending the (completely valid) poster URL back to PVD... PVD itself handles the actual downloading of the image, and that's where this particular URL breaks it. (Changing the Preferences/Plugins option to forbid the script from overwriting the movie poster won't help, as PVD still tries to download the image regardless of this setting, as long as the script passes it a valid URL.)
For now, I'm just going to enter all the movie information (including the poster) manually for this title. But, I think there needs to be some kind of sanity check in PVD's internal HTTP-download routines to prevent an infinite loop like this from happening?
Aimhere
