On 18/03/2008, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
May flag people using caching proxies.
Proxies may not cache the HTML as it changes more frequently and it's
highly unlikely they cache the MP4 stream. They would cache images and
style sheets though.
> Cheers,
> Al
Way to confuse me! I had to check the To address to make sure this was
backstage and not Ubuntu-UK ;)
> Perhaps they are tracking download speeds and guessing from that?
Someone suggested speed limitng wget to make it look more iPhone-ish.
Most probably pull it full speed
Incidently I am trying to work out how to *stream* as I thought it
might be good to get something running on Android but it will take me
a long while (if ever, why is it no matter how much you know it is
never enough?).
Andy
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Computers are like air conditioners. Both stop working, if you open windows.
-- Adam Heath
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