Not a rewrite - just some code that'll prompt auth against the iPlayer site to allow content scraping, storage of the cookie, and passing the cookie each time (i.e. a persistent session). If re-authentication is needed, then prompt the auth again.
All this will be for is scraping the iPlayer site. Downloads /should/ be unaffected, as these come from the CDN. AFAIA, CDN access generally doesn't require auth as this has the potential to slow delivery - the security is through obscurity using algorithmically generated paths. I'm not saying that CDNs _don't_ use security, just that in general it is considered an unnecessary overhead when the nature of the content itself can only reliably be determined by the publisher (and their code), hence the dependency on the iPlayer site to work out which CDN to use and the location of the data on the CDN. On 12 May 2017 at 09:26, Hugh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > Agreed. It might. It might rain today. Useful? Interested? > That's my last noise on the subject. > Regards > Hugh > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer -- Alex _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
