Session Cookie support for streaming

[MHrezdovic]

Hello gents,

i have a question regarding using session cookie with dash.js player. We would like to use dash.js player in our product, unfortunatly we are somehow unable to utilize the session cookie.

Currently when manifest is requested (or any other following chunk/manifest request) we send along with the response a header paramter Set-Cookie, which we are expecting to get in return to next request e.g. video/audio Inits/chunks etc.. Unfortunatlely it seems dash.js player ignores this Set-Cookie header.

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So my question is does dash.js player support this? If no can it be added into the code, if yes it some cofing param ?

Thanks

[bbert]

Have you tried API MediaPlayer.setXHRWithCredentialsForType() ?

[MHrezdovic]

Hello bbert,

thanks for suggeston, we will try! will let you know.

Thanks

[MHrezdovic]

Hello bbert,

i tested in reference player, so in the console i did player.setXHRWithCredentialsForType(XMLHttpRequest,true)

but it seems that it did not help or i did not manage to config it properly. i did it like this:

[bbert]

Hello,
You must specify the HTTP request type, in your case for initialization and media segments:

player.setXHRWithCredentialsForType('InitializationSegment', true);
player.setXHRWithCredentialsForType('MediaSegment', true);

One has to admit that API doc and typescript typings are not clearly documented for this method.
You can check source file https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js/blob/development/src/streaming/vo/metrics/HTTPRequest.js for existing request types.

[MHrezdovic]

Hello bbert,

i did try, but it still does not sent the cookie tho:

Am i doing soemthing wrong or do i have a wrong version of dashjs ?

I did also try like this, but no change:

Thanks

[MHrezdovic]

Anyone knows what needs to be done or if i am doing something wrong ? Thanks

[bbert]

I did try on my side, when using API player.setXHRWithCredentialsForType("MediaSegment",true) I do see the "Cookie" header in the requests.
Maybe a CORS issue ? Have you checked error messages on the console?

[MHrezdovic]

Hello bbert,

Thanks for the assistance, it was indeed a CORS issue, we manage to get it working with following commands:

player.setXHRWithCredentialsForType('InitializationSegment', true);
player.setXHRWithCredentialsForType('MediaSegment', true);
player.setXHRWithCredentialsForType('MPD', true);

And correctly set up CORS, one more time thanks for the help!

I might get back with another questions one day :)