la times won't download

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.have uninstalled and reinstalled
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Android 

Please provide any additional information below.
List Says la times but doesnt work. has been working right for
 months. But all of a sudden it doesn't.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by meggr...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2014 at 2:06

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Looks like the URL has changed as of last monday, it is now i.e. 
http://www.cruciverb.com/puzzles/lat/lat140202.puz

I didn't get a Newsweek puzzle today either, I'll check into that.

Original comment by todd.d...@gmail.com on 2 Feb 2014 at 5:08

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Ok, LAT is the one puzzle I do every day, so it seems like as good a time as 
any for me to play around with some Android development...

It looks like the puzzles are still in the same place, they just changed the 
prefix.  I was able to download all puzzles from Jan 24 - Feb 3 with this (up 
to Jan 26 both prefixes work, but afterwards only 'la' works).

I also updated the headers based on what I saw in the packet capture.  If I use 
'Accept-Encoding' it fails - I didn't look into it but I assume it obliges and 
sends us a compressed version which we don't handle properly...  I just 
commented it out for now.

diff -r 1ba821b4825c shortyz/src/com/totsp/crossword/net/LATimesDownloader.java
--- a/shortyz/src/com/totsp/crossword/net/LATimesDownloader.java        Mon Aug 
05 00:53:07 2013 +0100
+++ b/shortyz/src/com/totsp/crossword/net/LATimesDownloader.java        Mon Feb 
03 02:02:16 2014 -0500
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@
                nf.setMinimumIntegerDigits(2);
                nf.setMaximumFractionDigits(0);
                headers.put("Accept","*/*");
-               headers.put("Accept-Charset", "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3");
                headers.put("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.8");
+               // headers.put("Accept-Encoding", "gzip,deflate,sdch");
                headers.put("Connection", "keep-alive");
                headers.put("Host", "cdn.games.arkadiumhosted.com");
                headers.put(
                                "Referer",
-                               
"http://cdn.games.arkadiumhosted.com/latimes/games/daily-crossword/game/crosswor
d-expert.swf");
+                               
"http://cdn.games.arkadiumhosted.com/latimes/games/daily-crossword/game/daily-cr
ossword");
                headers.put("Content-Length", "0");

        }
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@

        @Override
        protected String createUrlSuffix(Date date) {
-               return "puzzle_" + (date.getYear() - 100)
+               return "la" + (date.getYear() - 100)
                                + nf.format(date.getMonth() + 1) + nf.format(date.getDate())
                                + ".xml";
        }

Original comment by todd.d...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2014 at 7:08

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Here are the packet headers from the LAT flash app, I'm using chrome 33 beta.

GET /latimes/assets/DailyCrossword/la140203.xml HTTP/1.1
Host: cdn.games.arkadiumhosted.com
Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like 
Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.58 Safari/537.36
Accept: */*
Referer: http://games.latimes.com/games/daily-crossword/
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8

Original comment by todd.d...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2014 at 7:11

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As of 2:28 pm PDT, I am still unable to download LA Times puzzles, and I've 
already uninstalled and reinstalled the app. I am able to download USA Today 
puzzles, so the app does work on my phone.

Original comment by scottsem...@gmail.com on 6 Feb 2014 at 10:29