Add custom header field in request of AVPlayer

Question

Is it possible to send headers with an http request to an audio file when using AVPlayer? I need to be able to inspect the content of the header when received by the server

Answer 1

the full code could look like this

  #pragma Mark Sound Stuff

- (void)playSound:(NSString *)filePath
{
    AVPlayerItem *playerItem = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:filePath]];
    [playerItem addObserver:self forKeyPath:@"status" options:0 context:0];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(itemDidFinishPlaying) name:AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification object:playerItem];
    self.audioPlayer = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithPlayerItem:playerItem];
    [self.audioPlayer play];
}

- (void)initSoundPrelisten
{
    //NSLog(@"begin: %s", __FUNCTION__);
    self.activityIndicator.hidden = NO;
    [self.activityIndicator startAnimating];

    // verification delegate : register
    dataProtocol = [[StoreConnection alloc] init];
    [dataProtocol setDelegate:self];
    [dataProtocol requestDataFromServer:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"sound/%@/audio/sample", [self.sound objectForKey:@"globalId"]]];
}

- (void)dataSuccessful:(BOOL)success successData:(NSMutableData *)data;
{
    NSLog(@"%s", __FUNCTION__);
    if (success) {
        //NSLog(@"sound data: %@", data);
        NSString *cacheDirectory = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSCachesDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0];
        NSString *filePath = [cacheDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"sample.mp3"];
        //NSLog(@"filePath: %@", filePath);
        [data writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES];
        [self playSound:filePath];

    } else
    {
        UIAlertView* alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Store Error" message:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"An Error occured while trying to download sound. Please try again"] delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
        alertView.tag = 1;
        [alertView show];
    }
}