Re: [Gnash-dev] youtube cookie bug

[Rob Savoye]

On 05/26/10 07:04, strk wrote:

> Does that fix the youtube cookies problem ? (fingers crossed).

  Yes, it fixes the problem. Basically when you first connect to
youtube, their server sends the cookie in the response. This contains a
few fields they use to find a regional server nearer to you. So without
Gnash (via curl) sending out this same information in HTTP requests, the
redirect never happens, so no video source. Now that I figured it out it
makes sense. :-)

> It'd be interesting to hear from other browsers (or pre-3.1 users)
> to see what happens in that case. I might have one (ubuntu 8.10).

  Since people run a wide variety of browsers, the patch for this is at
http://www.welcomehome.org/gnash/gnash-plugin.patch (only 183 lines).
Some more testing would be useful. This patch only effects the plugin,
so you don't have to recompile all of Gnash. "make install-plugin" is
all you need to do.

  Once this is checked in, and the Scriptable support finished up for
ExternalInterface, we'll finally have reasonably good integration with
the browser. At that point it'll be interesting to see what other
improvements can be made.

        - rob -