Custom headers with HTML5 video requests

Question

I have a video resource sitting behind OAuth 2.0 wall and want to display it via tag. How can I send Authorization header with video

Answer 1

i had this problem and sent Authorization token in url query parameter like this (server side code must be changed to allow reading Token From both request header & request query parameter) : http://www.example.com/samplevideo?Authorization=sample_token

Answer 2

As far as i know, you can't.

But you can still use the error attribute to check if the <audio> element can fetch the video from JavaScript, and redirect to an authentication page if not.