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		rb2k_ on April 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services... The BBC iPlayer website is pretty easy to fool. I just set up a squid proxy on a UK VPS and created a .pac file that redirects all bbc.co.uk requests. The final video stream won't be on that domain, so it will just go over the "normal" connection.

pmjordan on April 4, 2011 [–]

Curious. I didn't realise the stream itself wasn't IP-restricted. This could solve issues with flaky VPS bandwidth.

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