Bug #40143 for WWW-Netflix: WWW-Netflix-0.05 Bug

Sat Oct 18 00:54:43 2008 ryan [...] entink.net - Ticket created

Subject:	WWW-Netflix-0.05 Bug
Date:	Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:53:47 -0700
To:	bug-WWW-Netflix [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Ryan Lang <ryan [...] entink.net>

I'm using WWW-Netflix-0.05 with Perl 5.8.8. I am guessing that Netflix has updated their website which has, from what I can tell, broken this module. The "GET" function dies when logging in. I have the error "couldn't find login form at /path/to/ perl/WWW/Netflix.pm line 28." I'm very interested in getting this module up and running - let me know if I can help at all. Hopefully it's a small fix.

Sat Oct 18 16:48:46 2008 CMEYER [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I am seeing all tests passing. The error you describe makes me think that either you are not retrieving the login page (do you need to use a proxy?) or perhaps there was an intermittent error on the Netflix side. Since the last release of this module, Netflix has made the excellent decision of releasing a public API, so that programs may access their functionality without resorting to web-scraping. The future of this module should be to abandon all of the screen scraping techniques, and provide an easy to use interface to the REST/xml api. This would primarily mean the work of mapping the Netflix xml data structures to Perl data structures.

Sat Oct 18 16:48:48 2008 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sat Oct 18 16:50:24 2008 CMEYER [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Tests pass; WWW::Netflix able to log in and perform tasks; no bug;

Sat Oct 18 16:50:27 2008 CMEYER [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Sat Oct 18 16:50:29 2008 CMEYER [...] cpan.org - Given to CMEYER