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[viron75]

I have been working on a Crunchyroll plugin.  The plugin lets me login and navigate around the site.  I can get all of the videos.

This is accomplished with a CookieContainer that "tricks" the crunchyroll website into thinking I am logged in all the time.

The problem is when I play a video I don't know how to make the PlayOn host have my CookieContainer so crunchyroll says no and it doesn't play.

Does anyone know how to affect PlayOn's cookies? Can they be written somewhere on the harddrive or can I actually pass my CookieContainer in code to the host?

If its as easy as writing them out to the environment's IE Temp Internet Files directory that may be a solution?

[mopenstein]

I've been meaning to check and see how playon gets videos and how it reports itself. I am a bit surprised that there isn't a way to set cookies or the user agent, for examples, but as far as I know you can't do this.

[mopenstein]

FYI, what a PlayOn Request looks like:

WMV Request

Code:

GET /Movie.wmv HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
User-Agent: NSPlayer/11.0.5721.5265 WMFSDK/11.0
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: 127.0.0.1:8080
Connection: Keep-Alive

FLV Request

Code:

GET /Movie.flv HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/x-icq, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*
Range: bytes=0-
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0)
Host: 127.0.0.1:8080
Connection: Close

[viron75]

Ah, I figured it out.  Use a InternetExplorer object instead of a HTTPRequest object

[ddyeakley]

 I am trying to do something similar, use InternetExplorer object to create cookies.    Do you have any code you can share on how you got this to work with crunchroll?   Seems like a bloated approach but I am running out of options....

[viron75]

Its a very bloated approach, the problem isnt the InternetExplorer object, its MSHTML that is required to read the InternetExplorer.document object.  It makes a big ass dll that you have to have in your running path and takes for fricken ever to compile.  There are a million examples of how to use this in vbscript and vb on google, I just changed it to work on C#.

[Guitaroomasta]

Hello viron75,

I mulled over creating a script for Crunchyroll a little while I ago but discovered that Crunchyroll, streams videos using RTMPE which from what I understand PlayOn doesn't currently support  But I am a very amateur script writer/programmer so I may have overlooked something.  If you got the streams to work, great!  Best of luck, I look forward to your plugin.

Guitaroomasta

[seeit360]

Ive got one too but the issue is the authorization, not the cookies

[viron75]

It probably depends on the website, but it seems to work for crunchyroll if there is a cookie in the InternetExplorer cookies file.  If there was a way to save the cookie information without invoking MSHTML it would be alot more lightweight.  It would still need the Shdowvc dll, but that one is alot smaller.

[ddyeakley]

I must be missing something.   Is there a trick to get Playon to use a cookie created by the plugin (through MSHTM) or a browser?   The browser see the cookie but Playon does not?

[viron75]

Correct, if you make a CookieContainer in code and don't physically save the cookie, PlayOn can't access it.  You have to use an instance of InternetExplorer.Application to save the cookie to the hard drive so any other InternetExplorer.Application that is launched has access to it.

[ddyeakley]

As a test i created the cookie in IE, I can shut down and reopen IE and access the area without authenticating.   Should Playon use the same cookie?  Or does it have to be created (as a file) from inside Playon? 

[viron75]

According to PlayOn tech guys, PlayOn "should" be able to access a cookie as long as IE can access it.

[smoothreptile]

Any more news about this plugin for Crunchyroll?

[AllanB]

SeeIt360 has this plugin available for download.

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