Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] Site based user-agent

[Kevin D. <kde...@gm...>]

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On 09/11/09 10:53, Dean Montgomery wrote:
> ----- "Kevin DeKorte" <kde...@gm...> wrote:
>> Dean,
>>
>> I'm not sure that this would solve the problem completely as you have
>> the initial request (prior to the streamed data) to deal with as
>> well.
>> In svn of gecko-mediaplayer I have solved the problem for the
>> apple.com site by changing the user-agent in firefox when the
>> QT version of the plugin is loaded. I have also had to work
>> around this in gnome-mplayer as well.
> 
> The initial browser request doesn't affect the apple trailers, only the mplayer-plugin request is checked for user-agent.  When I set mplayerplug-in.conf as follows, the apple trailers work:
> 
> user-agent=QuickTime/7.6.2 (qtver=7.6.2;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)
> 
> So if the player itself could be configured to send different user-agent strings on a per domain basis then it will be easy to fix if domains require specific user-agent strings. (e.g. apple.com)

I made a fix to the code to pass a correct user-agent when the url is
apple.com

Kevin


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