tv_grab_eu_xmltvse Failed to fetch http://xmltv.xmltv.se/channels-Germany.xml.gz

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XMLTV Version?

0.6.1-1 0.6.3-1

XMLTV Component?

tv_grab_eu_xmltvse

What happened?

grab returned no data

What did you expect to happen?

grab returns channel-list

Did you see any warnings/errors?

(Please paste any warnings/errors, if available)

 tvheadend[2327]: xmltv: /usr/bin/tv_grab_eu_xmltvse: grab /usr/bin/tv_grab_eu_xmltvse
 tvheadend[2327]: spawn: Executing "/usr/bin/tv_grab_eu_xmltvse"
 tvheadend[2327]: spawn: Failed to fetch http://xmltv.xmltv.se/channels-Germany.xml.gz at /usr/bin/tv_grab_eu_xmltvse line 400.                                                                                                               
 tvheadend[2327]: xmltv: /usr/bin/tv_grab_eu_xmltvse: no output detected
 tvheadend[2327]: xmltv: /usr/bin/tv_grab_eu_xmltvse: grab returned no data
 tvheadend[2327]: xmltv: /usr/bin/tv_grab_eu_xmltvse: grab /usr/bin/tv_grab_eu_xmltvse

What steps are needed to reproduce this issue?

(Please provide the full commands you are running)

Use tvheadend to run interval grabbers
run /usr/bin/tv_grab_eu_xmltvse via cli

Any other information?

(For example, is this a new or intermittent issue?) Fairly new, at most two weeks

What other software are you using?

Operating System: Debian buster

Perl Version: 5.28.1-6+deb10u1

Workaround

I realized the channels-File was available in my browser AND via wget, but curl said only '301 Moved Permanently' so I traced the actual location which is now https:// instead of http://

My Workaround was to edit /usr/bin/tv_grab_eu_xmltvse to use https://

128: my $default_root_url = 'https://xmltv.xmltv.se/';
129: my $default_main_url = 'https://xmltv.se/';

Now it works again. I guess the perl script uses curl module to fetch and does not correctly follow the 301-message which directs to the new location?

XMLTV / xmltv