Hi! Well if i might ask. Whats the pricing of replay media catcher? For youtube i use video download helper in firefox and it works great. But the swedish radio has some odd flash player so maybe replay media could work on this. /A 17 maj 2014 kl. 15:44 skrev Petro T. Giannakopoulos <petro...@clear.net>:
> For Roger C. and others. > > Let’s Talk About Replay Media Catcher and HTTPS > Yesterday, May 16, 2014, 2:05:10 PM | debbie > > Keeping up with the constant changes in streaming protocols is just the job > for Replay Media Catcher‘s Engineers. They like a challenge and frequently > whip up very smart solutions to very tough problems. If you’ve installed the > most recent version of Replay Media Catcher, you’ll see that we’ve made some > great improvements. And if you like to download streams from YouTube, then > you’ve likely seen the new prompt to install a CA certificate. So what’s that > all about? Have no fear! We’re here to break it down for you. Let’s get > nerdy, shall we? > YouTube and some other sites now stream their media over an HTTPS connection > by default. So what is HTTPS? Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure is the > secure version of http. Typically used when a secure connection is necessary. > Like for ecommerce transactions and such. When you connect to a website that > is using HTTPS, the session is encrypted with a Digital Certificate. > Let’s first look at how Replay Media Catcher downloads, then we’ll explain > how installing the CA Certificate helps it to do it’s job better. When you > switch on Replay Media Catcher, it starts sniffing the network traffic. > Looking for media to download. As you come across streaming video or music, > Replay Media Catcher decodes that network traffic and if it understands what > it is seeing on the network, it tries to detect and download the media based > on intelligence we’ve written for that protocol. Pretty slick, right? That’s > how Replay Media Catcher can download so much more without browser plugins. > It simply does not need them. It only listens to the network. > Let’s say you’ve switched on Replay Media Catcher’s monitoring and you’re > happily browsing along and decide to download the latest viral video on > YouTube. Remember we said that YouTube is now streaming their media over an > HTTPS connection.. SSL is the standard security technology for establishing > an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. When you see HTTPS in > the URL, you are using the SSL/TLS protocol to speak to that website. Replay > Media Catcher will then not understand that traffic and disregard it. That > sounds like bad news, right? Nope! Read on… > If you’re running Replay Media Catcher version 5.0.1.46 or later, you’ll > notice a new prompt when it first sees media from a site that is streaming > over HTTPS. This prompt explains that in order for Replay Media Catcher to > scan for media that is streamed over HTTPS, a CA certificate is required to > be created. A CA (Certificate Authority) is an authority in a network that > issues and manages security credentials. > You can choose to allow HTTPS scanning or not. If you choose no, Replay Media > Catcher will ignore any HTTPS streaming and you’ll be sad. That breaks my > heart. Say YES! > > If you choose YES, (and we recommend you do) then Windows will prompt you to > install the CA certificate. Windows presents you with this: > > The title of the window says “Security Warning”. Yeah, well…it’s not a > problem. Windows is just letting you know that a certificate is about to be > installed. Windows says that it cannot validate the certificate as actually > being from Replay Media Catcher, but have no fear. We have created a > certificate called Replay Media Catcher 5 SSL Scanner Root. Essentially, it > allows Replay Media Catcher to scan HTTPS traffic like that being served by > YouTube for downloadable media. It is absolutely safe. And you are not > putting yourself or your computer in any danger by installing it. > Don’t miss out on all the great streaming goodness that Replay Media Catcher > can download. It’s waaay smarter than any other streaming media downloader. > Guaranteed! > Don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions! > > RSS feed address is, > http://applian.com/blog/feed/
