VLC for Android please enable and allow http-referrer and http-user-agent options to be set.
Description
VLC for Android please enable and allow http-referrer and http-user-agent options to be set.
I can get Vlc 3.0.8 on Ubuntu 18.04 64bit desktop to work / be set by using http-referrer and http-user-agent options while using an xspf file, an m3u file, and a Lua script file but when I load any of those files using VLC for Android on my Tablet running vlc 3.2.3 it doesn't work and I get an error "The location cannot be played"
How can I get http-referrer and/or http-user-agent to work / and/or test/fixed in VLC for Android?
Here's an example of a M3U file which works in Vlc 3.0.8 on Ubuntu 18.04 64bit desktop. vlc 3.0.8 on Ubuntu 18.04 64bit
#EXTM3U x-tvg-url="http://epg.streamstv.me/epg/guide-canada.xml.gz"
#EXTVLCOPT:http-user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.25 Safari/537.36
#EXTVLCOPT:http-referrer=https://referrerlink.tv/channel/
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="CSPAN-US" tvg-name="CSPAN-US" tvg-language="English" tvg-logo="https://s3.amazonaws.com/schedulesdirect/assets/stationLogos/s10161_h3_aa.png" group-title="",C-Span
https://skystreams-lh.akamaihd.net/i/SkyC1_1@500806/master.m3u8
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="CSPAN 2-US" tvg-name="CSPAN 2-US" tvg-language="English" tvg-logo="https://cdn.tvpassport.com/image/station/240x135/cspan2.png" group-title="",C-Span 2
https://skystreams-lh.akamaihd.net/i/SkyC2_1@500807/master.m3u8
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="CSPAN 3-US" tvg-name="CSPAN 3-US" tvg-language="English" tvg-logo="https://cdn.tvpassport.com/image/station/240x135/cspan3.png" group-title="",C-Span 3
https://skystreams-lh.akamaihd.net/i/SkyC3_1@500808/master.m3u8Expected behavior
To enable and allow setting the options http-referrer and http-user-agent on VLC for Android just like in VLC for the desktop.
To test options here's a git site https://ijk4de.gitlab.io/httpheaders/
And the Javascript code to test with if you want to test your own.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
//JavaScript goes here
function getHeaders() {
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open('GET', document.location, false);
req.send(null);
// associate array to store all values
var data = new Object();
// get all headers in one call and parse each item
var headers = req.getAllResponseHeaders().toLowerCase();
var aHeaders = headers.split('\n');
var i =0;
for (i= 0; i < aHeaders.length; i++) {
var thisItem = aHeaders[i];
var key = thisItem.substring(0, thisItem.indexOf(':'));
var value = thisItem.substring(thisItem.indexOf(':')+1);
data[key] = value;
}
// get referer
var referer = document.referrer;
data["Referer"] = referer;
//get useragent
var useragent = navigator.userAgent;
data["UserAgent"] = useragent;
//extra code to display the values in html
var display = "";
for(var key in data) {
if (key != "")
display += "<b>" + key + "</b> : " + data[key] + "<br>";
}
document.getElementById("dump").innerHTML = display;
}
</script>
<noscript>
<p>This site uses javascript to check http headers please enable javascript</p>
</noscript>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="generator" content="GitLab Pages">
<title>Plain HTML site using GitLab Pages</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="navbar">
<a href="https://pages.gitlab.io/plain-html/">Plain HTML Example</a>
<a href="https://gitlab.com/pages/plain-html/">Repository</a>
<a href="https://gitlab.com/pages/">Other Examples</a>
</div>
<h1>This site is used to view http headers</h1>
<p>
This site is used to view http headers.
</p>
<body onload="getHeaders();">
<div id="dump">
data comes here
</div>
</body>
</html>