New OPDS client for Pocketbook

[nhedgehog]

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

Making the change to the cfg and deleting the cfg.back seems to work on my device!

I can then make a minor change to any of the servers within the app to write the correctly hashed files, although it doesn't seem necessary.

Yes thats what I observed too. Deleted the hash at the end too but that does not seem necessary.

[j2robin]

Thanks all for the feedback. Its much appreciated.

Originally Posted by nhedgehog

Tested the new version from github. Thanks for that.
Got 2 OPDS server working, others not. For instance this is not working:
https://manybooks.net/opds
https://manybooks.net/opds/
http://srv.manybooks.net/opds/index.php
but this is working:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.opds/

Got some problem with the opds_client.cfg:
1) opds_client.cfg from previous was not converted to new version.
2) opds_client.cfg changed outside OPDSClient didn't show the changes in OPDSClient after resubmitting it (don't know what I did wrong, the version OPDSClient was creating seemed identical).

What I'm missing is the ability, to open the downloaded epub directly in OPDSClient without having to go back to the library.

I will look into this when I get some time. The parser may need some tweaking. I didn't use this one in my testing so may have missed something. Something strange going on there. The Pocketbook app works but doesn't get the folder names. KOReader works.

I will also look into changing the file saving process again to avoid the hash inkview adds.

[j2robin]

Its not a problem with the parser. The client doesn't get that far. The Cloudfare host for Manybooks is blocking the client. It thinks the client is a bot (it kind of is)

I tried changing the user agent and headers to look more like a browser but still no go. It isn't fooled by the libcurl TLS fingerprint. It is flagging me and sending an HTML challenge page which the client can't interpret.

To fix this it looks like I might have to use a newer version of libcurl and OpenSSL than the Pocketbook firmware provides. Don't really want to do this as I would have to cross compile them and static link to the executable. Goodbye small executable size. Even then it might not work. Cloudfare doesn't want me to connect.

[nhedgehog]

@j2robin Thanks for testing it. I just stumbled over it and wanted to inform you. I don't really use it.