[Nottingham] BBC iPlayer - browser whitelist?

[Simon Osborne]

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:04 AM, David Aldred <david at familyaldred.org.uk>wrote:

> On Saturday 08 Nov 2008, Simon Osborne wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:04 PM, David Aldred
> <david at familyaldred.org.uk>wrote:
> > > So it looks as though the BBC won't serve iPlayer stuff to Iceweasel -
> > > can anyone confirm/deny this before I email them to ask what's going
> on?
> > >
> > > (I actually usually use get_iplayer rather than viewing stuff direct,
> as
> > > more
> > > often than not someone else in the house wants to watch it at a
> different
> > > time and I like to preserve bandwith!   However it'd nice to have the
> > > option
> > > without having to fiddle with user agents!
> >
> > Yes, BBC iplayer go off the user agent. I believe they use this for the
> > iPhone/iPod as they get sent MP4 data instead of Flash Video.
> >
> > As quite a few websites read user agents (online banking is one) it would
> > be useful to set your useragent as being firefox.
>
> Hmm.  Perhaps I'll do that.
>
> Funny thing is that it was working until recently - the BBC must actually
> have
> taken iceweasel of their list!


Might be worth contacting them anyway about this as it could be a genuine
error.

Simon
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