Re: MCE EPG Download ERROR Revealed

From: Robert Schlabbach (robert_s_at_gmx.net)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 02:24:49 +0200

IIRC, the MCE guide download first uses HTTP (to get the list of available
headends = providers), then HTTPS (to download the actual guide data). The
first part appears to be XML-based. I don't know about the second part...

Regards,« 

-- 
Robert Schlabbach
e-mail: robert_s@gmx.net
Berlin, Germany
"Derek R. Flickinger" <DrFlick@online.InteractiveHomesInc.com> wrote in message news:#WbN3zdFEHA.2308@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Has anyone done a packet trace on this process to see what is going on under 
> the wraps?  We haven't bothered to look, so I'll just ask here - what port 
> does the EPG update process use?  If it is a standard Port 80 request (or is 
> it doing an FTP get?), I would have a tough time accepting this explanation. 
> If it requires something specific, then things could break if a certain port 
> is required to be opened dynamically and that part is not working correctly 
> (I believe all of our current "functioning correctly" setups are using the 
> dynamic NAT Traversal features of standard IGDs, with ICF enabled, via 
> UPnP(tm) technologies).  Another thought would be something that may have 
> changed in the way the XML-based data is getting parsed on the machine (is 
> it using Java-based scripts per chance?).