Re: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

On Mon Nov 28 19:54:25 GMT 2016, d.lake wrote: someone has obviously gone out looking for a server ... As someone outside the UK, I can assure you there exist plenty of sites (yes, many of which Russia based) that perform port scanning to find vulnerabilities/misconfiguration in UK based

RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

indeed. -Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of John Crisp Sent: 28 November 2016 19:40 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV! On 28/11/16 13:40, d.l...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: > > I

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On 28/11/16 13:40, d.l...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: > > I run my get_iplayer server on a VPS using a VERY unusual port number. I > had assumed that would be good enough, but it wasn't. > How unusual is 'unusual'? There's only 65536 to scan :-) Doesn't take long. Some excellent advice here on

RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

p Sent: 28 November 2016 16:52 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV! On 2016-11-28 16:26, da...@harleystreet.net wrote: > Clearly I have not understood at all. > > I thought get_iplayer.cgi was the script which was being accessed by > unauthoris

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On 2016-11-28 16:26, da...@harleystreet.net wrote: Clearly I have not understood at all. I thought get_iplayer.cgi was the script which was being accessed by unauthorised folk and thus being told to do stuff not desired by you. If so, then protecting where it is located by .htaccess would

Re: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 04:40:53PM +, d.l...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: >I am sort-of trying to protect the port, but given that I access my server >from a whole heap of locations and I can't say in advance what those source >IPs will be, it will make it all rather cumbersome. ssh tunnel. Bind the

RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

player@lists.infradead.org Subject: RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV! Clearly I have not understood at all. I thought get_iplayer.cgi was the script which was being accessed by unauthorised folk and thus being told to do stuff not desired by you. If so, then protecting where it is located by .ht

RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

--Original Message- > From: da...@harleystreet.net [mailto:da...@harleystreet.net] > Sent: 28 November 2016 14:37 > To: Lake D Mr (PG/R - Elec Electronic Eng) <d.l...@surrey.ac.uk> > Cc: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV! > > Y

RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

ct: Re: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV! Run get_iplayer.cgi with option -l 127.0.0.1 -p 1935 to only listen on localhost port 1935. Set up sshd, to allow port forwarding then to access get_iplayer web pages. ssh -f -L 1935:localhost:1935 host Then just point browser to http://localhost:1935/ ssh

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g) <d.l...@surrey.ac.uk> > Cc: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV! > > I don't understand the problem. > > As explained at the url I gave... > > A typical .htaccess file looks like the following: > > AuthUserFile

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is streaming live TV! On 28/11/16 14:01, Nick wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 12:40:58 + > <d.l...@surrey.ac.uk> wrote: >> Because I spend a lot of my time travelling, all my music and radio >> downloads are stored on a cloud VPS server. I can't really block >> down by IP

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:02 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV! On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 12:40:58 + <d.l...@surrey.ac.uk> wrote: > I suspect the aim is to stream BBC TV programmes from outside the > UK... > > I run my get_iplayer server on a VPS using a

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ember 2016 14:37 To: Lake D Mr (PG/R - Elec Electronic Eng) <d.l...@surrey.ac.uk> Cc: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV! You protect the directory where the cgi file is located and then folk can't run it because they can't access it. Am I m

RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

ake D Mr (PG/R - Elec Electronic Eng) <d.l...@surrey.ac.uk> > Cc: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV! > > I don't understand the problem. > > As explained at the url I gave... > > A typical .htaccess file looks like the follow

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On 28/11/16 14:01, Nick wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 12:40:58 + > wrote: >> Because I spend a lot of my time travelling, all my music and radio >> downloads are stored on a cloud VPS server. I can't really block >> down by IP address because I don't really know where

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: da...@harleystreet.net [mailto:da...@harleystreet.net] Sent: 28 November 2016 14:10 To: Lake D Mr (PG/R - Elec Electronic Eng) <d.l...@surrey.ac.uk> Cc: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV! I don't understand the problem. As explained at the url

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sage- > From: da...@harleystreet.net [mailto:da...@harleystreet.net] > Sent: 28 November 2016 14:00 > To: Lake D Mr (PG/R - Elec Electronic Eng) <d.l...@surrey.ac.uk> > Cc: ro...@firedrake.org; get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV! &g

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[mailto:da...@harleystreet.net] Sent: 28 November 2016 14:00 To: Lake D Mr (PG/R - Elec Electronic Eng) <d.l...@surrey.ac.uk> Cc: ro...@firedrake.org; get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV! > The answer is going to be some .htaccess-like username

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On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 12:40:58 + wrote: > I suspect the aim is to stream BBC TV programmes from outside the > UK... > > I run my get_iplayer server on a VPS using a VERY unusual port > number. I had assumed that would be good enough, but it wasn't. > > Because I spend

RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

> The answer is going to be some .htaccess-like username/password. It's pretty simple to create a password file using something like this... http://www.web2generators.com/apache-tools/htpasswd-generator ___ get_iplayer mailing list

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to be some .htaccess-like username/password. -Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Roger Bell_West Sent: 28 November 2016 12:26 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV! On Mon, Nov 28, 2016

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On 2016-11-28 12:17, d.l...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: Mystery solved. Someone somewhere has set up a site which accesses my get_iplayer cgi script and kicks off downloading from live TV. With what aim - just to slow your machine down? (It's hard to believe that such a person would be a closet

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On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 12:17:30PM +, d.l...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: >Now, does anyone know how to password protect the CGI script ? I don't >think I can do this with normal .htacess Um, don't expose your web server to the world? If you need to get at it from outside, use a VPN.

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- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip Sent: 28 November 2016 10:47 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV! On 2016-11-28 10:08, d.l...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: > export IPLAYER_OUTDIR=/h

RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

On 2016-11-28 10:08, d.l...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: export IPLAYER_OUTDIR=/home/Media/iPlayer /usr/bin/perl /root/get_iplayer_dev/get_iplayer/get_iplayer.cgi --port=8080 --getiplayer=/root/get_iplayer_dev/get_iplayer/get_iplayer ... to start get_iplayer Where do I look for an options file? I have

RE: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

player is streaming live TV! On 2016-11-28 09:11, d.l...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: > Hello > > I have a very strange problem with get_iplayer. > > When I start get_iplayer, it immediately connects to a whole range of > TV channels and starts downloading live video from a range of > ch

Re: Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

On 2016-11-28 09:11, d.l...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: Hello I have a very strange problem with get_iplayer. When I start get_iplayer, it immediately connects to a whole range of TV channels and starts downloading live video from a range of channels.   This is eating my bandwidth and I really don't

Get_iplayer is streaming live TV!

Hello I have a very strange problem with get_iplayer. When I start get_iplayer, it immediately connects to a whole range of TV channels and starts downloading live video from a range of channels.   This is eating my bandwidth and I really don't want it happening ! Any idea? Thanks David