We're using redirects in our feeds that appear to be working. I'm not
sure but I don't think your redirect is providing a proper HTTP
location header. In particular, I think you need a full URL. Web
browsers are possibly more forgiving than iTunes.
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:48:56 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat)
Vary: Host
Accept-Ranges: bytes
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.2
Location: bb23.2.mp3
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Is anyone aware of a way to redirect the URL of the audio file through
a tracking script - that won't make the file unavailable to iTunes users?
We want to provide real-time statistics on how many times - per day
and per month - every podcast show is downloaded or played.
Here's an example of an RSS <enclosure> that will download via iTunes:
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