Feature #946
Reveal headers in httpGet request without loading file
| Status: | Fixed | Start date: | 04/24/2012 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: |  Andreas Öman | % Done: | 100% | |
| Category: | plugins | |||
| Target version: | 3.6 |
Description
Some few websites, like Videofriender requires that we get the headers of a video link (for example: http://46.23.67.117/videos/0076/0243/3df89258ae43c931cfb0da8e4c04a791cf83929d.mkv) so we can parse a better video link. The problem is that Showtime by default will download this file (there are no redirections in this link, it is a direct one) when it shouldn't because it has about 900Mb, we only need the headers, like peek at the server and close immediately the request without downloading it. In this case I would need headers.etag
Associated revisions
js: Add support for HEAD requests in showtime.httpGet
Fixes #946
History
#1
Updated by Andreas Öman about 1 year ago
- Status changed from New to Accepted
- Priority changed from High to Normal
I'll implement the HEAD request, working like this:
andoma@norion:~$ curl -v -X HEAD http://46.23.67.117/videos/0076/0243/3df89258ae43c931cfb0da8e4c04a791cf83929d.mkv * About to connect() to 46.23.67.117 port 80 (#0) * Trying 46.23.67.117... connected * Connected to 46.23.67.117 (46.23.67.117) port 80 (#0) > HEAD /videos/0076/0243/3df89258ae43c931cfb0da8e4c04a791cf83929d.mkv HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.21.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8o zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.18 > Host: 46.23.67.117 > Accept: */* > < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:28:59 GMT < Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) < Last-Modified: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:53:18 GMT < ETag: "f530017-3825d98d-4b04163a58f80" < Accept-Ranges: bytes < Content-Length: 942004621 < Connection: close < Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 < * transfer closed with 942004621 bytes remaining to read * Closing connection #0 curl: (18) transfer closed with 942004621 bytes remaining to read andoma@norion:~$
#2
Updated by Andreas Öman about 1 year ago
Here we go:
var v = showtime.httpGet('http://zebes.lonelycoder.com/', null, null,
{debug:true, headRequest: true});
showtime.print('result: ' + v);
As you can see, no output. Headers are there though.
#3
Updated by Andreas Öman about 1 year ago
- Status changed from Accepted to Fixed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Applied in changeset 496f1705e1ebd6339b622cb068a182f0259f1e61.