specify user-agent for videoplayer requests

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Dear all,

Does anybody know if it is possible to pass my own user-agent for ifVideoPlayer streaming GET requests?
In other words, I suspect the place where I’m getting my ifVideoPlayer.url stream is checking for “valid” user-agents so I want to try and change it…

Thank you,
Luis

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It’s in the ifHttpAgent interface:
AddHeader(“user-agent”,“user agent string”)

-JT

3

I did find that but…how can I use it from an roVideoPlayer object?
I understand I could do it if I were creating my own http requests but the roVideoPlayer object manages the http connections by itself, right?
Or is there a way to bind the roVideoPlayer http connection to my own http object?

Thank you!
Luis

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The roVideoPlayer object supports the ifHttpAgent interface, so if you have

vp = CreateObject("roVideoPlayer")

then you can do

vp.AddHeader("user-agent","user agent string")

-JT

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Wow, that’s awesome! Thank you so much!

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How can I find out what other interfaces objects have access to??
Is there some place on the documentation where this is explained? I had never seen it?

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The Component Reference lists supported interfaces for each component. http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/roVideoPlayer

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Thank you!