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[Christian Hewitt]

On 21 Jan 2011, at 20:52, pat wrote:

> I have set-up a freenas box that acts as my personal proxy when I am out
> of the uk, I can then point get_iplayer at this to download content. I
> would be very interested in exactly how I can "configure get_iplayer to
> selectively proxy only the http requests that are used to discover the
> CDN stream URL to bypass the geolocation check etc." that way I would
> not be limited by the upstream bandwidth of my proxy.

get_iplayer proxy=http://[username:password@]<server>:<port> --partial-proxy

The description for --partial-proxy in --long-help is "Only uses web proxy where absolutely required (try this extra option if your proxy fails)" ..meaning only the http requests to locate the stream URL are proxied. Once the URL has been found you connect directly to the stream on port 1935.

Christian