Request to support standard User-agent and Referer like in Kodi

[mikhoul]

Hi, could you add url support with "User-Agent" and "Referer", as in Kodi ? 🤔

Most modern IPTV players support the M3U8 Kodi syntax for UA and Referer:

Here's an example:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,Test
https://www.streamaway.net/fra/13e/mono.m3u8|User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0&Referer=https://www.streamaway.net/fr/13erue-fr.php
https://www.streamaway.net/fra/histo/index.m3u8|Referer=https://www.streamaway.net/fr/Histoire-fr.php

It would be really useful since in many list for different channels we need différents "Referer" and the option allow to specify only one different referer by playlist.

Regards !

[4gray]

In several playlists I have also seen this kind of syntax:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,Test
#EXTVLCOPT:http-referrer=http://example.com/
#EXTVLCOPT:http-user-agent=custom-user-agent
http://stream-url-here

I think in the end it would be ideal to have support for both formats.

[mikhoul]

In several playlists I have also seen this kind of syntax:

Yes this is the second most used syntax, this syntax come from VLC.

The most popular is the Kodi standard it is used by many Android IPTV playrer like Tivimate.

I agree to have bot supported would be the best. 😄

Since the logic for referer is already implemented in iptvnator do you think it would be long to have it compatible to the kodi standard ? 🤔

Regards

[4gray]

Since the logic for referer is already implemented in iptvnator do you think it would be long to have it compatible to the kodi standard ?

Yeah, I have started working on this, I think the feature will be available in the next release. The library used for parsing ipv-playlist-parser will need to be extended.

[mikhoul]

Thanks a lot @4gray , 👍

It will be really useful to play legal links from various sites that are expecting a specific user agent.

[mikhoul]

@4gray I've seen that you have integrated the feature so I'd like to know when you intend to publish the next release with this feature integrated ?

Regards