Player does not respect Redirection from HTTP response

[arthurgeron-work]

Describe the bug The stream URL responds with a different 'Location' header, it ignores that and tries to stream data from the same domain but with a mangled path.

To reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior. Utilize a endpoint that returns a Location header pointing to the stream file in a Storage service (e.g. gcp, AWS S3, etc)

Expected behavior The player should load from the proper "new" location (e.g. be redirected) using the Location header data.

Screenshots

The request:

The location header:

Expected behavior:

How it behaves:

Device (please complete the following information):

• Simulator or Real Device: Simulator
• Device: iPhone 13
• OS: 15.5

Debug logs (Errors bellow are due to the player trying to load the stream from a mangled path):

Error 500:  (MediaPlaylist: ErrorNetwork)
[Error: Request failed with status code 503]

Additional context The expected behaviour comes from a package that I used before called react-native-aws-ivs-player which reacted correctly to the http redirection.

HTTP Response data:

{
  "id": 415401149733227800,
  "requestTime": "2022-08-11T01:30:37.419Z",
  "method": "GET",
  "url": "https://hml-mobile.tradersclub.com.br/tcmediaapi/v1/file/hls/6524ac42-fb1b-4c10-a96a-a2f088448913.m3u8",
  "domain": "hml-mobile.tradersclub.com.br/tcmediaapi/v1/file/hls/6524ac42-fb1b-4c10-a96a-a2f088448913.m3u8",
  "requestHeaders": [
    {
      "value": "application/x-mpegURL, application/vnd.apple.mpegurl, application/json, text/plain",
      "key": "Accept"
    }
  ],
  "responseTime": "2022-08-11T01:30:37.589Z",
  "status": 307,
  "reason": "temporarily redirected",
  "responseHeaders": [
    {
      "value": "h3=\":443\"; ma=86400, h3-29=\":443\"; ma=86400",
      "key": "Alt-Svc"
    },
    {
      "value": "cloudflare",
      "key": "Server"
    },
    {
      "value": "DYNAMIC",
      "key": "cf-cache-status"
    },
    {
      "value": "max-age=604800, report-uri=\"https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct\"",
      "key": "expect-ct"
    },
    {
      "value": "https://storage.googleapis.com/tc-media-storage-hml/hls/6524ac42-fb1b-4c10-a96a-a2f088448913/6524ac42-fb1b-4c10-a96a-a2f088448913.m3u8",
      "key": "Location"
    },
    {
      "value": "Thu, 11 Aug 2022 01:30:37 GMT",
      "key": "Date"
    },
    {
      "value": "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload",
      "key": "Strict-Transport-Security"
    },
    {
      "value": "b13ac13f-ad8c-4521-b5ff-54741cdc9c7d",
      "key": "x-request-id"
    },
    {
      "value": "0",
      "key": "Content-Length"
    },
    {
      "value": "2",
      "key": "x-envoy-upstream-service-time"
    },
    {
      "value": "nosniff",
      "key": "x-content-type-options"
    },
    {
      "value": "738d3502eba0a6ac-GRU",
      "key": "cf-ray"
    },
    {
      "value": "Origin",
      "key": "Vary"
    }
  ],
  "responseLength": 0,
  "requestLength": 0,
  "duration": 170
}

[arthurgeron-work]

We fixed this by adjusting our transcoder in the back end, not sure if everyone agrees that the player should respect redirection or not so I'll leave this open.

[maxstoller]

Hi @arthurgeron-work, thanks for reporting. We will discuss this behavior internally. Glad you were able to figure out a workaround in the meantime.

[alexmdodge]

@arthurgeron-work to help with our investigation, do you know if the previous package (react-native-aws-ivs-player) that worked for you was a previous version of this repository? Or is it another package on GitHub?

[alexmdodge]

After some internal investigation, re-labelling as a feature request as we do not support this path with the current wrapper implementation. We're evaluating where to put this in our roadmap.

[arthurgeron-work]

@arthurgeron-work to help with our investigation, do you know if the previous package (react-native-aws-ivs-player) that worked for you was a previous version of this repository? Or is it another package on GitHub?

No it wasn't a previous version of this repository! It was developed by a independent dev that used AWS native player with a React Native Wrapping Layer, this is the link to the repo