A glimpse of Nitro

[Dirk Husemann]

On 2014-11-03 12:38, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote:
> Charles Johnson <cehjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Taken from the source of
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-29825165
>> The Nitro urls have even specified a special URI scheme:
> [...]
> "nitro://programme?mediaType=video&type=Episode&pid=b04mvj6v&end_from=2014-10-30&start_to=2014-10-30",
>
> Since these are non-standard presumably these only work when some BBC
> site-specific extension has been loaded into a browser and configured so
> they get control for each such URI?   
>
best case: just syntactic sugar (i.e. just a "shortcut" but still using
HTTP), worst case: proprietary protocol using websockets...

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