On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 05:46:57PM +0000, Ian Partridge wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Iain Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FTA: > > "In fact, more than most: the vast majority. Something like just one > > twentieth of one percent have accessed a BBC iPlayer programme via a > > hack." > > > > The whole point about the recent update is that the server really > > can't tell if the client is an iPhone or not, so where does that stat > > come from? > > Perhaps they are tracking download speeds and guessing from that? Will > the mp4 be pulled at a much faster rate by curl/wget than it would > have been by an iphone that downloads it incrementally for realtime > viewing? >
If I was trying to detect this stuff I'd be looking for people with abnormal behaviour such as clients that grab an html page and then the mp4 without grabbing any other collateral such as style sheets, images and so on. Can't be hard to figure out given the logs. Cheers, Al. - 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]/
