Issue in stream HLS signed url video. Error 403 forbidden

CCMT 8 years, 5 months ago

Hi Foliovision Folks,

I am writing this note regards to some issue with FV Player Pro.

We are facing issue with the signed url specifically with HLS video. On the other had the mp4 signed url file perfectly works with the player.

We debug at our side and found the Request URL: for HLS won’t pass the signed url similar like it passing in mp4 file.

Please help us to resolve this issue.

For reference attaching/uploading images for the mp4 and HLS network parameters.

PFA!!

Thanks
Vikrant Tyagi

mp4-ok
hls-error

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Martin 8 years ago

Hello Vikrant,

thank you for your question!

This is bit on an issue, as the URL signature can’t work with a HLS stream. As you noticed the m3u8 file is a list of the segments which can’t have the URL signature dynamically appended.

We actually mention this a number of times in our guide for HLS: https://foliovision.com/player/securing-your-video/hls-stream But perhaps we should add a warning for it into our video checker as well.

We could theoretically tweak it in our video engine, but devices such as iPhone, iPad or Android which play HLS streams natively wouldn’t support that.

Another sort of a solution would be to use a cookie signature rather than URL, but not all mobile devices pass on cookies to the HLS requests. Perhaps iOS 10 does?

We recommend using encrypted HLS streams which is far better protection than a URL signature.

Thanks,
Martin

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