I am not doing anymore development on this pluging at the moment.
And here is why. It is an interesting story.
In December 2012 my access to iView via the web interface and via the standard X-box interface stopped working. Symptoms on the iView web application was that the loading of any video would stall at 52%
Also the rss feed pages like
http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/rss/cat ... school.xml returned 403 Forbidden
Investigating further I found I could browse to rss feed pages via
https://morphium.info anonymising proxy
Browsing from my phone via 3G also worked.
This led me to the conclusion that ABC had actually blocked my IP address.
I contacted the ABC over this issue but never heard anything back. But after 2 months of me not running the iView pluggin my iView access was back.
So the moral of this story for me was - don't use the iView plugin if you don't want ABC blocking your IP address. (This conclusion is only based on circumstansial evidence. ABC never confirmed that they did block the address.)
It is quite likely that the ABC could detect the activity of the plug in as being unusual becasue it is quite regularly accessing every video on iView (the metadata of them at least). It would generate logs with highly unusual activity I would suspect.
So I am discontinuing development of this.