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How does veehd know if you have their plugin installed or not? I dug through the veehd plugin, and all it does is add this right after the body: 

<meta name="VeeHD" content="plugin for corp">

If I disable the plugin, add that manually [w/ chrome's Inspect Element], it does give me the link! so I don't necessarily need the plugin, I just need that tag there.. my question is, how does this meta change whether the server knows if I have the plugin or not? I want to make a bash script to get the .avi of a veehd url

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Now I'm really wondering... What's wrong with the Download button right under the video? – Tom Wijsman Aug 22 '11 at 16:01
What Download button under the video? That's what you click on, and if you have the plugin, it gives you the download link. I want the link without the plugin. :( – Matt Aug 22 '11 at 16:10
If the plugin is indeed needed, you need to actually have the plugin to figure out where the link is. – Tom Wijsman Aug 23 '11 at 20:03
Well, I finally sorta figured it out. The plugin adds the <meta>.. and then, in the veehd website javascript, they encode some words in hex, or something so you cannot [as easily] read them. Anyway, it basically checked if the element <meta> with an id of VeeHD exists, and if so, it runs a $.get, to /xhrp, with variables, like sgn [signature?] and t [video id?].. Anyway.. I've probably tried for hours to get it working, but I would always get 'Codec-C not installed' or if I use a user agent, 'Please install the veehd plugin'. so I'm stuck, and I gave up. – Matt Aug 23 '11 at 21:27
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closed as off topic by Tom Wijsman, techie007, random♦ Aug 23 '11 at 23:01

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