BBC podcasts on third-party apps

Re:BBC podcasts on third-party apps by ascagnel_ on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:42AM (#19512082)

I'm also a premium subscriber; while they used to use basic HTTP auth, they've since switched to generating revocable, per-user keys. It's both better for security and easier for podcast clients to manage.

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Re:BBC podcasts on third-party apps by voxadam on Thursday March 28, 2019 @11:40AM (#19513273)

By "revocable, per-user keys" do you mean each user is given a unique URL to download premium content from or is some type of cryptographic DRM being leveraged?

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Re:BBC podcasts on third-party apps by ascagnel_ on Thursday April 11, 2019 @10:28AM (#19634854)

Yup; you get a URL to the premium feed with a unique hash on the end.

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Re:BBC podcasts on third-party apps by foobarandgrill on Thursday March 28, 2019 @01:51PM (#19514715)

I'd imagine it's a token in the request headers

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Re:BBC podcasts on third-party apps by __david__ on Thursday March 28, 2019 @02:48PM (#19515265)

I doubt it's request headers since that would require the podcast player to set them. Putting it in the URL itself would make it work with every player on the planet.

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Re:BBC podcasts on third-party apps by mikewhy on Thursday March 28, 2019 @01:05PM (#19514181)

Oh nice. I was a premium subscriber for years but never bothered using the premium podcast URLs. The ads can be pretty funny.

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