Video Player plugin - Support HTTP headers

[cbenhagen]

It would be nice to add support for HTTP headers:

new VideoPlayerController.network("https://example.com/test.mp4",
    headers: {HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION: "Basic your_api_token_here"}
)

[freewheelnat]

Agreed, it would allow us to use the plugin to show videos hosted on our servers (for which we need Authorization header).

[charafau]

I can volunteer to implement that..

[cbenhagen]

@charafau any news on this?

[charafau]

sorry didn't have much time over the week, I got working android implementation, give me some time to get around with objc and ios - I will do this this week.

[freewheelnat]

Any update on this? It's becoming quite critical for my app, but I only need the Android implementation for now, so trying to figure out how to proceed.

[cbenhagen]

For mine as well. @charafau may I suggest to open a WIP pull request with what you have got? This way others might help with what is missing or review what is already there.

[charafau]

@freewheelnat @cbenhagen sorry about keeping you wait, headers on ios seems more complicated than I thought. I created WIP for android

[freewheelnat]

FYI, I have found a workaround for my use case, as the url I call for the video accept the https://username:password@url format for authentication, so I don't need to send an authorisation header.

[cbenhagen]

Unfortunately this does not work for us.

[viju85]

Same here. Is there any update on adding headers support?

[charafau]

I must say I failed to implement this for iOS, you'd have to change how current plugin works (or worked at that time)

[cbenhagen]

There are two PR trying to fix this issue but on iOS both use a private API (AVURLAssetHTTPHeaderFieldsKey). I wonder if that would really get an app rejected. Is there someone on here with good contacts to Apple which could get this approach approved?

[Yarikk26]

Our app has been approved by Apple with this fix without a problem.

[pepie]

Hello. Has there been any progress on this?
I can definitely use a solution for this.

[morchidnb]

Hello, any progress in this, it will be very useful ??

[Appli-chic]

Any news about it?

[JarvanMo]

Video Player plugin - Support HTTP headers #2074

[sc4v3ng3r]

Please add support to http headers. It's a crucial setting.

[TRUSTMEIMJEDI]

Are there any news about merging it to the master need this functionality for my engineer thesis ASAP ?

[Ladriel]

I second that idea, it would be really handy.

[alibt]

i have same issue. any news?

[cherlow]

any update on this issue?

[Yarikk26]

The proposed solutions use private iOS API. I heard that Apple started rejecting applications based on Electron for this reason. I don't think that they would take a risk to get such a solution merged in master.

[cherlow]

The proposed solutions use private iOS API. I heard that Apple started rejecting applications based on Electron for this reason. I don't think that they would take a risk to get such a solution merged in master.

do you have a workaround for android only...i need it urgently

[jaysephjw]

Since supporting arbitrary headers currently seems blocked because of the private iOS API, I have created a separate issue (#61638) and PR (flutter/plugins#2882) for supporting Cookies only as a workaround 🤞

So, won't help if you need an "Authorization" header but will help if you need to attach a session cookie.

[AhmedNourJamalElDin]

Any update?

[jhancock4d]

This appears to not be working for web despite jsplayer fully supporting it.

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