<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:04 AM, David Aldred <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@familyaldred.org.uk">david@familyaldred.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Saturday 08 Nov 2008, Simon Osborne wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:04 PM, David Aldred<br>
<<a href="mailto:david@familyaldred.org.uk">david@familyaldred.org.uk</a>>wrote:<br>
> > So it looks as though the BBC won't serve iPlayer stuff to Iceweasel -<br>
> > can anyone confirm/deny this before I email them to ask what's going on?<br>
> ><br>
> > (I actually usually use get_iplayer rather than viewing stuff direct, as<br>
> > more<br>
> > often than not someone else in the house wants to watch it at a different<br>
> > time and I like to preserve bandwith! However it'd nice to have the<br>
> > option<br>
> > without having to fiddle with user agents!<br>
><br>
> Yes, BBC iplayer go off the user agent. I believe they use this for the<br>
> iPhone/iPod as they get sent MP4 data instead of Flash Video.<br>
><br>
> As quite a few websites read user agents (online banking is one) it would<br>
> be useful to set your useragent as being firefox.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Hmm. Perhaps I'll do that.<br>
<br>
Funny thing is that it was working until recently - the BBC must actually have<br>
taken iceweasel of their list!</blockquote></div><br>Might be worth contacting them anyway about this as it could be a genuine error.<br><br>Simon<br>