
Dropbox streamed my HLS
I setup a dropbox stream to my player and it worked. I just wonder why, when the CORS thing should have blocked it? Unless Dropbox has an open CORS - does this endanger my website if I allow dropbox to stream to me?
I setup a dropbox stream to my player and it worked. I just wonder why, when the CORS thing should have blocked it? Unless Dropbox has an open CORS - does this endanger my website if I allow dropbox to stream to me?
Hm, interesting. Can I see a link to where this is running?
sure, made a new page. Make sure to view on IOS because I dont have Premium license. In flash you will see Big BucK bunny but in html5 you see my HLS stream which is totally different
http://vod.on2dvd.com.au/dropbox.html
Note also, I find the bandwidth is lower than streaming HLS from Cloudfront and so the quality is below par for me as it wont keep the the 720 P stream ( at least in Australia), it may be fine from the US
By the way. This only works from the public folder. Dropbox users created after 2012 do not get a public folder by default and it is only offered now in Pro and Business accounts. ( they have to enable it too)
I also tested from a shared folder ( not the public one) with the real URL to the m3u8 on Dropbox ( verified in browser) but it did not work - so my conclusion is that Dropbox have open CORS and Crossdomain in the old public folder but not in any other folder.
Hi,
Yeah, it looks like Dropbox has open CORS (for HTML5), since this plays fine on mobile.
Best,
-Ethan