Question

I am trying to develop a custom movie player in iPhone using AVPlayer. But I am just wondering that if the m3u8 url response sends back an authentication challenge, how do I handle that. I do know about didReceiveAuthenticationChallenge and NSURLConnection but no clue about how does it work in this context.

Any help is appreciated.

-Soumya

Answer 1

We’ve made a different approach to a similar issue as we had to comply with redirects in HTTP, too. We did the authentication in cookies and set them for a whole domain:

NSDictionary *properties = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                            kAuthCookieDomain, NSHTTPCookieDomain,
                            kAuthCookiePath, NSHTTPCookiePath,
                            kAuthCookieName, NSHTTPCookieName,
                            kAuthCookieValue, NSHTTPCookieValue,
                            kAuthCookieDiscard, NSHTTPCookieDiscard,
                           nil];
NSHTTPCookie *cookie = [NSHTTPCookie cookieWithProperties:properties];  
[[NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage] setCookie:cookie];