Add custom HTTP headers (Android)

If your content server allows for HTTP header authentication, you can apply HTTP headers to your self-hosted, registered content. HTTP headers prevent unauthorized downloads of your content.

To authorize your content request with HTTP headers, use the following steps:

Create a Map<String, String> object and name it, for example, httpHeaders.
Define httpHeaders.
Add httpHeaders to a PlaylistItem.

// Create a list to contain the PlaylistItems
List<PlaylistItem> playlist = new ArrayList<>();

// Create key-value map for the HTTP headers
Map<String, String> httpHeaders = new HashMap<>();
httpHeaders.put("cookie", "abcd1234");
		
// Add a PlaylistItem pointing to the first piece of content
PlaylistItem content = new PlaylistItem.Builder()
        .file("http://content/http-header-protected-content.m3u8")
        .httpHeaders(httpHeaders)
        .build();
		
// Add the content to the playlist
playlist.add(content);