use url as referrer

in the rss tutorial it says to check "use url as referrer", but
according to:

http ://tvrss.net/forums/viewtopic.php?id=9

you should uncheck it. should it be checked for eztv's own feed assuming it
works again sometime? also, does anyone know what bt-chat setting should be?

good point.

it only really has an effect on torrents sourced from mininova - looks like
they have turned on /get/ to /tor/ redirection again. (an anti `hotlinking`
measure)

it must have been off for some reason when i wrote that section of the doc
because it worked - i'll update it.

in general usage it's `good manners` to have referrer turned on, because it
lets the feed owners see where the hits are coming from.
however, mostly because of hotlinking abuse, some high volume sites have
disabled external direct link downloads.

in mininova's case, yes, leave "use url as referrer" unchecked, so that it
sends no referrer at all.

if they get even more harsh with the redirection, enter
h_tp://www.mininova.org/today/ as custom referrer.


if/when the eztvefnet feed comes back i'll have to check - before it went
offline there were 2 separate feeds for redundancy - one using bt-chat links,
one using mininova.

bt-chat ones should be unaffected because they use self-hosted .torrent files.

very helpful, thanks! 🙂