Well, I now have a working download script for the updated MP4 over HTTP service. Anyone else been playing with this this evening? Far too many messages to this thread for me to keep up with.
You basically have to send the exact same headers that an iPhone does, along with the BBC-UID. Fortunately someone emailed me a plain-text log of successful requests sniffed from his iPhone. I've used curl instead of wget this time as it gives you finer granularity of control over headers. The only way the BBC could keep media over HTTP and not have trivial scripts download files from them is to put some kind of user authentication system into the iPlayer. They should do it anyway and tie it to a valid TV license. Iain - 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]/
