set curl to follow redirects to fix scraper error

update to use legacy thegamesdb url
RetroPie · Jun 6, 2018 · 86a2cb7 · 86a2cb7
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diff --git a/es-app/src/scrapers/GamesDBScraper.cpp b/es-app/src/scrapers/GamesDBScraper.cpp
@@ -84,12 +84,12 @@ void thegamesdb_generate_scraper_requests(const ScraperSearchParams& params, std
 	if (!cleanName.empty() && cleanName.substr(0,3) == "id:")
 	{
 		std::string gameID = cleanName.substr(3);
-		path = "thegamesdb.net/api/GetGame.php?id=" + HttpReq::urlEncode(gameID);
+		path = "legacy.thegamesdb.net/api/GetGame.php?id=" + HttpReq::urlEncode(gameID);
 		usingGameID = true;
 	}else{
 		if (cleanName.empty())
 			cleanName = params.game->getCleanName();
-		path += "thegamesdb.net/api/GetGamesList.php?name=" + HttpReq::urlEncode(cleanName);
+		path += "legacy.thegamesdb.net/api/GetGamesList.php?name=" + HttpReq::urlEncode(cleanName);
 	}
 
 	if(usingGameID)
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ void TheGamesDBRequest::processList(const pugi::xml_document& xmldoc, std::vecto
 	for(int i = 0; game && i < MAX_SCRAPER_RESULTS; i++)
 	{
 		std::string id = game.child("id").text().get();
-		std::string path = "thegamesdb.net/api/GetGame.php?id=" + id;
+		std::string path = "legacy.thegamesdb.net/api/GetGame.php?id=" + id;
 
 		mRequestQueue->push(std::unique_ptr<ScraperRequest>(new TheGamesDBRequest(results, path)));
 

diff --git a/es-core/src/HttpReq.cpp b/es-core/src/HttpReq.cpp
@@ -58,6 +58,33 @@ HttpReq::HttpReq(const std::string& url)
 		return;
 	}
 
+	//set curl to handle redirects
+	err = curl_easy_setopt(mHandle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
+	if(err != CURLE_OK)
+	{
+		mStatus = REQ_IO_ERROR;
+		onError(curl_easy_strerror(err));
+		return;
+	}
+
+	//set curl max redirects
+	err = curl_easy_setopt(mHandle, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 2L);
+	if(err != CURLE_OK)
+	{
+		mStatus = REQ_IO_ERROR;
+		onError(curl_easy_strerror(err));
+		return;
+	}
+
+	//set curl restrict redirect protocols
+	err = curl_easy_setopt(mHandle, CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS, CURLPROTO_HTTP | CURLPROTO_HTTPS); 
+	if(err != CURLE_OK)
+	{
+		mStatus = REQ_IO_ERROR;
+		onError(curl_easy_strerror(err));
+		return;
+	}
+
 	//tell curl how to write the data
 	err = curl_easy_setopt(mHandle, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, &HttpReq::write_content);
 	if(err != CURLE_OK)