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| author | Micah Galizia <micahgalizia@gmail.com> | 2013-01-14 06:33:20 +0400 |
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| committer | Stefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com> | 2013-01-16 01:26:44 +0400 |
| commit | 10315b1cb81770212ed68f4d742a3ffbe81d5dbf (patch) | |
| tree | 6ce6e153e9bd2c78fe275f8e4d9b9ee8f7742d7e /doc/protocols.texi | |
| parent | 0b80a12184ef64a0b20c4baa70270b223e821812 (diff) | |
doc/protocols: document HTTP protocol cookie support
Signed-off-by: Stefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/doc/protocols.texi b/doc/protocols.texi index 6fdd08df78..9940b67d57 100644 --- a/doc/protocols.texi +++ b/doc/protocols.texi @@ -164,8 +164,27 @@ not specified. @item mime_type Set MIME type. + +@item cookies +Set the cookies to be sent in future requests. The format of each cookie is the +same as the value of a Set-Cookie HTTP response field. Multiple cookies can be +delimited by a newline character. @end table +@subsection HTTP Cookies + +Some HTTP requests will be denied unless cookie values are passed in with the +request. The @option{cookies} option allows these cookies to be specified. At +the very least, each cookie must specify a value along with a path and domain. +HTTP requests that match both the domain and path will automatically include the +cookie value in the HTTP Cookie header field. Multiple cookies can be delimited +by a newline. + +The required syntax to play a stream specifying a cookie is: +@example +ffplay -cookies "nlqptid=nltid=tsn; path=/; domain=somedomain.com;" http://somedomain.com/somestream.m3u8 +@end example + @section mmst MMS (Microsoft Media Server) protocol over TCP. |