On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What I mean is, what thing have they done to make it unique for the > > iPhone and what can we do to route around that so other phones can use > it? > > What they have done is called "user agent sniffing". They basically > look at whats connecting and if its an iPhone they serve a different > web page. You can spoof user agent[8][9] to bypass this but thats not > a proper solution.
Thanks. And if I might make so bold - why do they do this? What is it specific about the iPhone that this feed needs to be limited to iPhones? Or, to put it another way, if it wasn't sniffing my phone, could I watch this feed on my N95 (insert any other capable phone or phone app here) Cheers, Ivan > > All that is needed is link to the mobile version for when the user > agent sniffing fails. It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to do > that (but it has to be done at the BBC end). > > That being said Kudos to the BBC for actually using MPEG4! > > Andy > > [1] http://code.google.com/android/what-is-android.html > [2] http://code.google.com/android/reference/packages.html > [3] > http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/drm/package-summary.html > [4] http://code.google.com/android/toolbox/apis/media.html > [5] http://www8.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html > [6] http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php > [7] http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/mencoder.html > [8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent#User_agent_spoofing > [9] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 > > > > -- > Computers are like air conditioners. Both stop working, if you open > windows. > -- Adam Heath > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Ivan Pope Snipperoo 50 Providence Place BN1 4GE Brighton 01273808458 blog.snipperoo.com directory.snipperoo.com Widget Conference http://widgetwebexpo.com
