On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > This is true. I don't think you could reliably differentiate between an iPhone and a script pretending to be an iPhone.
> > 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 > *maybe*, but considering the interface only lets you view video if you're viewing from a wifi connection and not the phone's data connection (just a javascript check) then the only difference is, as suggested Quicktime limiting itself or pulling down a chunk of data at a time which is entirely possible but doesn't seem very likely. > 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?). > I don't really know much about Android. Does it have its own native video player? - 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]/
