thank you Iain - you just won me a bet, with nearly two and half hours to spare...
On 13/03/2008, Iain Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
