Peapod – 0.95 Whack-a-Mole
A few little bug-fixes and some extra functionality. This will probably be the last release before the holidays so a Merry Christmas to one and all.
Dependency Changes
- peapod is now using urlgrabber to do it’s HTTP downloading. On fedora, debian and ubuntu this is available as a package called python-urlgrabber. Alternatively you can downlod it from linux@duke.
New Features
- Handles HTTP redirects within feeds as well as redirects to the feeds
- Download bandwidth can be restricted by using <bandwidth>n</bandwidth> where n is the number of kilobytes per second each thread will use.
Bug Fixes
- Better handling of RSS feeds containing broken pubDate entries
- URLs containg special characters are now decoded properly