Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] iTunes mozilla plugin

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 16:34 -0500, Bryan Quigley wrote:
> > I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but the "iTunes plugin" does one
> > thing, and one thing only. Advertise that you have the iTunes plugin
> > installed, as if you had iTunes installed on OSX or Windows.
> >
> > I don't know whether it's still needed. It does none of the things that
> > you thought it did though.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> 
> So it just fools the site into thinking you have iTunes, so the site
> provides the itms:// link even though it doesn't actually add support
> for that.  I think I now understand what it does, and why it may have
> been useful in the past when I think Apple had the podcasts as RSS
> feeds.
> 
> In the specific examples I've tested it's much better without the
> plugin.  It will prompt you to install iTunes if it's not installed.
> If it is, it will try loading a itms:// link and then fail.
> 
> Example, try with and without the plugin:
> http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewFeature?id=365778070

Fair enough. But it should work. File a bug against totem-pl-parser.