2024-02-20

Custom headers to origin servers

You can now set one or more custom headers (name and value) that will be sent in the manifest requests to the sources. This is typically used as an authorization mechanism by the origin servers.

This applies to:

• Live sources
• Asset sources
• Asset catalog sources
• Ad server sources (ad origin)

In the WebApp, this is available in the "More options" section of the source creation and edition pages.

In the API, please see the origin / customHeaders parameters (e.g. create live source API).

This is also available when validating a source (More options).

The players in the preview page automatically add these custom headers to the requests, so that you can keep watching these sources and the services that use them, even when these headers are required by the origin servers.

Please see below a screenshot of the service creation page of the WebApp showing the custom header configuration fields: