Ars Technica

Hulu tries HTML encoding trick to protect streaming content

Hulu has apparently taken steps to thwart nontraditional browsers from accessing its video content by using JavaScript to encode and decode HTML sent to the browser. The move is clearly an attempt to ...
InfoWorld

End-to-end internationalization of Web applications

The HTML 4.0 standard introduced the accept-charset attribute on the <form> element to indicate what character encodings the server must accept. Unfortunately, the browser may disregard this value ...
Harvard Medical School

Encoding & item-level descriptions

These are examples of item-level descriptions, illustrating how encoding works with and without the use of CDATA (a feature of XML 1.0). Each example consists of two lines, the first is an example ...
Streaming Media Magazine

Encoding.com: Streaming Media's Comprehensive Hands-On Review

As with most cloud encoding vendors, Encoding.com is optimized for use via an application programming interface (API), and a substantial bulk of its customers use the API rather than a browser-based ...
Ars Technica

Hulu tries HTML encoding trick to protect streaming content

Content appearing on TV streaming site Hulu appears to have encoded HTML characters that are decoded on the client side in an attempt to thwart third-party software from scraping the TV shows outside ...