Hi areal, Just for clarification, I didn't intend in any way to help infringing your copyrights, rather to help a person to use your system.
2010/7/22 Ariel Biener <[email protected]> > On 07/22/2010 09:06 AM, Boris shtrasman wrote: > > Don't know if that the case , but at least for some I had to work with > you must login to a web site (full auth) prior to to that the server will > disable the access to the files. Also make sure with wireshark. > > Did you try with a perl script ? to connect and download the mms ? > > > I do not understand this thread. It is obvious that TAU does not want you > to circumvent > it's access protection. Even if this was possible, why would you do it ? > If you're pissed > that it doesn't work well with Linux, and you are a TAU student/staff > member, contact > the TAU helpdesk, and open a ticket on the subject, and request they find a > suitable > solution for you. > > That said, as TAUs CISO I am *telling* you that we are interested to see > our staff > and students access our protected data in the proper way, and that any > other person > is kept out. > > The whole idea of using perl script is to do a proper authorization, for the sake of this thread other "student content providers" (don't know the correct term) use this approach (authorized access using ldap or other mechanisms ) . > Until we enforced this, many students sites not affiliated with TAU have > published direct mms:// links to our content, which became available to > anyone, anywhere, > regardless of being affiliated with TAU or not, and thus infringing on our > copyrights, on > our academic staff copyrights, and also on Film studios copyright for some > of our material. > > If a staff member or student has a problem, we can find solutions via our > internal means of > doing so, and not via asking Linux-IL how to circumvent us. > > --Ariel > > > You arise an interesting point, Would it be illegal for a TAU student to create other software that isn't IE , hat would allow access to the portal ? For instance a perl based mechanism (I really love cpan :-) ) - that would allow him to access securely(*) to his content ? For example an extension to mazrim that would authorize connection to the content? I'm asking this after I got a similar answer from one content provider. P.s. sorry for the grammer and spelling -- -- Boris Shtrasman ------------ -- -- -- Boris Shtrasman ------------ |Gnu/Linux Software developer | | IM : [email protected] | | URL : myrtfm.blogspot.com| _______________________________
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