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?
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Ethan Feldman
JW Player Support Agent
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Hm, interesting. Can I see a link to where this is running?
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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
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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.
Ethan Feldman
JW Player Support Agent
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Hi,
Yeah, it looks like Dropbox has open CORS (for HTML5), since this plays fine on mobile.
Best,
-Ethan
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