[FFmpeg-user] "cookies" option doesn't seem to work.

[Benjamin Peng]

Thank you Ted!

I totally overlooked the text and thought "path" and "domains" are just the
cookie content in that example.


On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:19 PM Benjamin Peng <human.peng at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to set cookies for a HLS request.
>
> >ffmpeg -v 99 -cookies "test=blabla;" -i
> https://del.thumva.com/hls/20200621-0005-05/index_1.m3u8
>
> But the request doesn't actually include my cookie:
>
> [https @ 00000000005f7100] request: GET /hls/20200621-0005-05/index_1.m3u8
> HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: Lavf/58.51.100
> Accept: */*
> Range: bytes=0-
> Connection: close
> Host: del.thumva.com
> Icy-MetaData: 1
>
> If I use "headers" instead, it works fine:
>
> >ffmpeg -v 99 -headers "Cookie: test=blabla;" -i
> https://del.thumva.com/hls/20200621-0005-05/index_1.m3u8
>
> [https @ 0000000000446040] request: GET /hls/20200621-0005-05/index_1.m3u8
> HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: Lavf/58.51.100
> Accept: */*
> Range: bytes=0-
> Connection: close
> Host: del.thumva.com
> Icy-MetaData: 1
> Cookie: test=blabla;
>
> Why is it like this? Did I understand the "cookies" option wrong?
>