Add custom header field in request of AVPlayer

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user732538 picture user732538 · Mar 17, 2013 · Viewed 17.6k times · Source

Is it possible to send headers with an http request to an audio file when using AVPlayer? I need to be able to inspect the content of the header when received by the server in order to restrict access to the file being requested.

Answer

naituw picture naituw · May 17, 2014

You can use AVURLAssetHTTPHeaderFieldsKey of AVURLAsset's init option to modify request headers.

For example:

NSMutableDictionary * headers = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
[headers setObject:@"Your UA" forKey:@"User-Agent"];
AVURLAsset * asset = [AVURLAsset URLAssetWithURL:URL options:@{@"AVURLAssetHTTPHeaderFieldsKey" : headers}];
AVPlayerItem * item = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithAsset:asset];
self.player = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithPlayerItem:item];

Note: I found this key in sources of WebKit, but this is a Private option key, So your app may reject by AppStore if you use this.

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