changing the user agent

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hello, i’m trying to create a simple plugin that opens a predefined list of streams, one of these streams requires to access it with a different user-agent from plex default one.

is there a way for me to change it from plugin code?



Thank you very much in advance

Francesco

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yes would love to know if that works too
3

I think this is what you need:


def Start():<br />
  ...<br />
  ...<br />
  HTTP.SetHeader('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5')<br />
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I think you need a different approach. The code Sander posted would set the header for HTTP requests made from Python, but the way I read your post it seemed like you want to set the user agent when starting a stream from Plex. I’m not at home right now, and can’t remember exactly what the code is, but check the Apple Movie Trailers plug-in for an example (Apple doesn’t like you accessing the trailers from players that aren’t QuickTime, apparently).

5

Ah yes, you probably need this (MediaContainer.userAgent):



def Start():<br />
  ...<br />
  ...<br />
  MediaContainer.title1 = 'Apple Movie Trailers'<br />
  MediaContainer.content = 'Items'<br />
  MediaContainer.userAgent = 'Apple Mac OS X v10.6.1 CoreMedia v1.0.0.10B504'<br />
  MediaContainer.art = R('art-default.png')<br />
  HTTP.SetCacheTime(CACHE_INTERVAL)
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hmmm.... i need to send another user agent, when connecting to *.mov streams, globally, if necessary. where can i change that?!

thx
7


Hi!
Exactly as I posted ;) MediaContainer.userAgent configures the user agent string for requests that the videoplayer does (opening/streaming video files)
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allright, do i have to work in the source and the recompile it? actually i'm not getting the point. sorry. very new to plex.
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No - this is code for a media server plug-in, as detailed in the original post.
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