[ANN] get_iplayer 2.87 released

[dinkypumpkin]

On 20/10/2014 19:23, Nick wrote:
> Now I've had a proper wade in out of my depth.... the update uses a
> specific user agent to make the update URL provide the current release
> of get_iplayer? The odd entries in your httpd logs will be me trying to

The user agent is probably just for tracking.  get_iplayer reads a 
couple of files at known locations to find the latest version and the 
corresponding files.

> figure out if the web server is saying the text format is ISO-8859-15,
> or if it is when perl writes the file (something I would probably
> struggle to figure out).

Lest there be any doubt, get_iplayer (and me) are at fault. 
infradead.org serves the file correctly.