I've traced this to an issue with last.fm's server http response now being
chunk-encoded, which xmms2-scrobbler doesn't know how to decode. Below is
a patch to src/xmms2-scrobbler.c which checks if the response is chunk
encoded and converts it to a normal text response in place. I hope this
helps
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>
> /* parse buffer as chunk-encoded string if \r\n pattern found */
> char *endline = ptr;
>
> len = 0;
> while ((newline = strstr(endline, "\r\n"))) {
> newline += 2;
> endline = strstr(newline, "\r\n");
> if (!endline) {
> fprintf (stderr, "chunk conversion error\n");
> return total;
> }
> strncpy(ptr + len, newline, endline - newline);
> len += endline - newline;
> endline += 2;
> }
>
> if (len) {
> *(ptr + len) = '\0';
> }
>
>
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< fprintf (stderr, "no newline (1)\n");
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> fprintf (stderr, "no newline (0)\n");
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> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING, 0);
