Debian Bug#611473: get-iplayer: should not allow downloading entire iplayer site without explicitly requesting this

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

(confirmed for 2.79)

Package: get-iplayer
Version: 2.78-2
Severity: important

I ran an 'at' job overnight of the form
get_iplayer --get $(get_iplayer | grep 'my prog name' | cut -d: -f1)

Unfortunately, the grep failed (there was no program of this name at
the time the job ran) and so get_iplayer --get had no program id
numbers.  The result?  It attempted to download the entire iPlayer
catalogue :-( And I overran my usage allowance - it downloaded around
13 GB and was at most 15% of the way through the list of programs.

"get_iplayer --get" with no program ids should bail out or ask for
confirmation; only an explicit request such as "get_iplayer --get ALL"
should be allowed to attempt to download hundreds of gigabytes without
explicit confirmation.

   Julian


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Jonathan Wiltshire                                      jmw at debian.org
Debian Developer                         http://people.debian.org/~jmw

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