Antennapod download errors (403s etc)

Installed Antennapod, and have been successfully downloading and listening to podcasts, recently though it has stopped downloading any episode from newly Subscribed Podcasts, throwing any number of download errors, inparticular 403s, (forbidden, blocked access).

Using gnirehtet and reverse tethering, I can connect to newly subscribed podcasts without any problem:

Not sure why, but can only think weak wireless signal is to blame, despite being able to see the podcast series, and still browse, Antennapod throws errors when trying to download.

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weak wireless signal doesn’t play into this. A http 403 comes up due to the remote limiting your IP or user-agent. Browsing podcasts might speak to different remote (the one with the rss feed) than the download links for audio files - and those got issues. Does it happen on all podcasts or only specific ones? able to disclose them?

I assume it is temporarily due to ratelimiting. More exotic reasons could be the dns in reverse-tethering giving you another host than you get on the handheld and this one isn’t misconfigured to serve the paths you request in Antennapod. After all, if you don’t use the mobile data connection, both handheld and PC/Laptop do have the same network exit. Then my rate limit theory makes less sense.

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It only happens on certain podcasts, and I don’t use mobile data at all.

I did try to download one of the podcasts via the weblink in Antennapod, and in a browser on a laptop (although the address of the feed could have been different), but they both failed, but did download when reverse tethered.

Happy to disclose the podcast if that helps.

do you have advanced privacys tor exit enabled when you see the 403? CDNs that carry podcasts can limit tor exits.

so… let’s check one of the podcast where you see errors?

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I’ve been having the same issue with AntennaPod lately. The 403 error on some podcasts whether I have a great signal or a bad one.

could also just be some rss / mp3 url that is now outdated. Host sees request on path that is not allowed anymore, returns 403. So I think any report needs to name the Podcast to poke the rss feed.

Antennapod has without doing anything started redownloading, weird.

Podcast that was not downloading: ā€˜Diary of a Project Manager - Richard Stone’.