CORS & HTTP Options

Question

I have built a custom receiver app using Google's example for the chromecast. I am trying to stream SmoothStreaming on it. Problem is, that I see the networking debugger and I see that for every chunk of SS it fetches, it does HTTP OPTIONS before the HTTP GET.

Is there a way to use a CORS xml or something so that the chromecast will not do these overhead calls?

Thanks

Answer 1

You need a CORS Proxy. Have you tried to use corsproxy.com? Or TOMODOKorz? Links:

• http://www.corsproxy.com/
• https://github.com/TOMODOcom/TOMODOkorz

From the tests I've been doing, the Chromecast client always sends HTTP OPTIONS to check it has permissions to get the content and then (after receiving a 200 OK) sends a POST to the license server.