Look we've got a 1337 h4xs0r capable of pWning the BBC on the list; somebody arrest that man ;p
Sorry, but the way this story has been covered by the mainstream media (see the other thread), anyone would think you're master black-hat cracker. And we all know hackers are bad people... Vijay. 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/ >
