IPTV Simple Client: Custom HTTP headers ?

geekfisher · October 11, 2019 at 3:40 PM

Hi,

I am trying to configure IPTV Simple Client to use with my IPTV service. I do have to provide a subid and an stbid as http headers but I don't know how (or if I even can) to do that.

I am able to launch it from my PC with ffplay.

Thanks for your help,

geekfisher · October 15, 2019 at 3:26 PM

With ffplay, it works if I use:

ffplay -infbuf -headers $'SUBID:1\r\nSTBID:1\r\n' live.m3u8

Thanks,

**vpeter** · October 15, 2019 at 4:55 PM

At the end of URL try adding custom header like

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http://streamer.example.com/live/699/live.m3u8|X-My-Custom-Header=something

geekfisher · October 15, 2019 at 5:08 PM

Quote from vpeter
At the end of URL try adding custom header like
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http://streamer.example.com/live/699/live.m3u8|X-My-Custom-Header=something

Can I use multiple | to use multiple parameters ? Like:

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http://streamer.example.com/live/699/live.m3u8|X-SUBID=value|X-STBID=value ?

Do I have to start with "X-" ?

**vpeter** · October 15, 2019 at 5:20 PM

You add multiple headers with & in between.

And no, header doesn't need to start with X-.

In your case try

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|SUBID=1&STBID=1

geekfisher · October 15, 2019 at 5:24 PM

Quote from vpeter
You add multiple headers with & in between.

And no, header doesn't need to start with X-.

In your case try
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|SUBID=1&STBID=1

This is what I get:

2019-10-15 12:18:32.004 T:4992 DEBUG: CDVDDemuxFFmpeg::GetFFMpegOptionsFromInput() ignoring header option 'STBID: 1'

2019-10-15 12:18:32.004 T:4992 DEBUG: CDVDDemuxFFmpeg::GetFFMpegOptionsFromInput() ignoring header option 'SUBID: 1'

**vpeter** · October 15, 2019 at 5:32 PM

This output comes from dvddemuxffmpeg.cpp#l790

And as you can see from the lines above only some headers are passed. Not sure if you could do what you want without custom build.

Maybe with some HTTP proxy.

geekfisher · October 15, 2019 at 8:45 PM

Quote from vpeter

This output comes from dvddemuxffmpeg.cpp#l790

And as you can see from the lines above only some headers are passed. Not sure if you could do what you want without custom build.

Maybe with some HTTP proxy.

Thanks for your help, HTTP proxy would be my last resort.

geekfisher · October 16, 2019 at 3:06 PM

Quote from vpeter

This output comes from dvddemuxffmpeg.cpp#l790

And as you can see from the lines above only some headers are passed. Not sure if you could do what you want without custom build.

Maybe with some HTTP proxy.

I guess I'll have to turn this to a feature request:

Custom HTTP headers ?

**vpeter** · October 16, 2019 at 3:28 PM

It all started here with discussion: Fixed: allow some basic HTTP headers to be passed on to ffmpeg by basrieter · Pull Request #10402 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub

I doubt this feature request would be accepted But who knows. If I were you I would just use one http proxy to insert this headers.

geekfisher · October 16, 2019 at 4:22 PM

Quote from vpeter

It all started here with discussion: Fixed: allow some basic HTTP headers to be passed on to ffmpeg by basrieter · Pull Request #10402 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub

I doubt this feature request would be accepted But who knows. If I were you I would just use one http proxy to insert this headers.

I just thought about building my own. From my understanding, I'd have to build a custom Kodi and integrate it in a custom LE build right ?

**vpeter** · October 16, 2019 at 4:37 PM

Create patch file packages/mediacenter/kodi/patches/kodi-800-extra-headers-ffmpeg-demux.patch with content

Diff

--- a/xbmc/cores/VideoPlayer/DVDDemuxers/DVDDemuxFFmpeg.cpp    2019-08-31 13:34:13.000000000 +0200
+++ b/xbmc/cores/VideoPlayer/DVDDemuxers/DVDDemuxFFmpeg.cpp    2019-10-16 17:33:37.391963941 +0200
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ AVDictionary *CDVDDemuxFFmpeg::GetFFMpeg
                name == "dnt" || name == "x-forwarded-for" || name == "x-forwarded-host" || name == "x-forwarded-proto" ||
                name == "front-end-https" || name == "x-http-method-override" || name == "x-att-deviceid" ||
                name == "x-wap-profile" || name == "x-uidh" || name == "x-csrf-token" || name == "x-request-id" ||
-               name == "x-correlation-id")
+               name == "x-correlation-id" || name == "subid" || name == "stbid")
       {
         if (name == "authorization")
         {

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and build image as Compile [LibreELEC.wiki]

geekfisher · October 16, 2019 at 4:42 PM

I'll also include the lib2to3 fix so Google Music can still work

Will try this shortly. Do I have to include the leading Diff ?

**vpeter** · October 16, 2019 at 4:48 PM

.

geekfisher · October 16, 2019 at 7:07 PM

vpeter do I have anything to clean before compiling so the patch is compiled ? I tried it but it still ignores the headers.

**vpeter** · October 16, 2019 at 7:16 PM

You see in kodi log file that headers are ignored?

If you add a patch file then buildsystem should rebuild Kodi when making image. You can check if patch was applied by command

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grep SUBID build.LibreELEC-*/kodi-*/xbmc/cores/VideoPlayer/DVDDemuxers/DVDDemuxFFmpeg.cpp

You should see

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name == "x-correlation-id" || name == "SUBID" || name == "STBID")

If you don't see this try cleaning Kodi package and make image again

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PROJECT=... ARCH=... ./scripts/clean kodi
PROJECT=... ARCH=... make image

geekfisher · October 16, 2019 at 7:39 PM

Quote from vpeter
You see in kodi log file that headers are ignored?

Yes, same error as before

If you add a patch file then buildsystem should rebuild Kodi when making image. You can check if patch was applied by command
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grep SUBID build.LibreELEC-*/kodi-*/xbmc/cores/VideoPlayer/DVDDemuxers/DVDDemuxFFmpeg.cpp
You should see
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name == "x-correlation-id" || name == "SUBID" || name == "STBID")
I do see it

If you don't see this try cleaning Kodi package and make image again
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PROJECT=... ARCH=... ./scripts/clean kodi
PROJECT=... ARCH=... make image
Still did it just in case, still didn't work
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**vpeter** · October 16, 2019 at 8:07 PM

Then try to clean kodi package and build image again. Check with grep for changes in a file.