Tracking podcasts

[steveo89]

I am trying to track downloads on a podcast, and have come to rewrites as the only option. I can code all the php I need for this project, but iTunes will not allow php pages that redirect (as an html meta refresh) to be listed as songs. So basically, I need to link to a .m4a and have php code run, then actually output a full m4a.

Thanks for the help!

[steveo89]

And btw....

From Apple's site:

"302s will be followed to a depth of 5 redirects and will not update the feed URL in the directory.
The URL before the GET-style form values (before the first?) must end in a media file extension (e.g. mp3). To work around this, the feed provider can alter their URL from this:
[podcaster.com...]
to this:
[podcaster.com...]
Notice how it says load.mp3 instead of load.php. It should be possible to accomplish this via various means, such as web server rewrites. iTunes looks at the extension of the path part of the url, i.e. the part before the"?"."