xbmc Dharma fails to install or update chinese-addons from xbmc-addons-chinese repository

System: Windows 7 installed with xbmc Dharma

Found that xbmc Dharma has problem to install new Chinese addons or new 
revision update. Other sites plugin like youtube does not have the problem. 
Also xbmc Eden does not experience the same problem.

After launched, xbmc Dharma is able to detect any new updates (and shown in 
system|add-ons etc), and attempt automatically to get the new update, but so 
far has not seen it suceeds to do so.

I use wireshark to sniff the http protocol, and found that xbmc begins with 
checking for the existence of fanart.jpg (no sure why), but failed. Then it 
starts to go up the parent directories ...., even landed up in eden_src 
directory. This continues even after you exit from xbmc. Then subsequent xbmc 
launch will fail with no display window. Must kill the xbmc process for xbmc to 
work again.

=== xbmc auto begin auto update ====
Full request URI: 
http://xbmc-addons-chinese.googlecode.com/svn/addons/dharma_src/plugin.video.you
ku/fanart.jpg

Full request URI: 
http://xbmc-addons-chinese.googlecode.com/svn/addons/dharma_src/plugin.video.soh
uvideo/fanart.jpg

==== start looping into parent directories ====
Full request URI: 
http://xbmc-addons-chinese.googlecode.com/svn/addons/dharma_src/plugin.video.soh
uvideo/resources/../../

Full request URI: 
http://xbmc-addons-chinese.googlecode.com/svn/addons/dharma_src/plugin.video.soh
uvideo/resources/../../../repository.googlecode.xbmc-addons-chinese/../../

==== landed up in eden_src directory =========
Full request URI: 
http://xbmc-addons-chinese.googlecode.com/svn/addons/dharma_src/plugin.video.soh
uvideo/resources/../../../eden_src/

Original issue reported on code.google.com by en...@singnet.com.sg on 6 Mar 2012 at 12:13

vika520 / xbmc-addons-chinese

xbmc Dharma fails to install or update chinese-addons from xbmc-addons-chinese repository #25