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URL signing - 403 error not handled by player


Hi!

We are trying to implement URL signing and we are wondering how the player handles expired URLs. Let's say a video URL expires in 10min and the user switches to another quality after these 10mins. Then this video url will have expired and it will fail playing. Or if the user doesn't start the video immediately but 8min later and if he changes the quality after 2min, then it would fail too.

Also the JS API on('error') callback does not provide the error code but a generic error object instead so we have no way to tell if the error was caused by a permission issue or something else.

Finally let's assume that the video urls expired and we hack our way around the API, load new video urls and provide them to the player. The player would play these videos from the start and not from where the user stopped playing the video, wouldn't it?

It seems that the docs are lacking information on that subject and we are unsure on how to approach that problem!

Any help would be really appreciated!

Cheers.

1 Community Answers

Heidi

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

jwplayer().on(‘error’) should return ‘You do not have permission to access this content’ if you console log it, is that not what you are seeing?

https://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/articles/1403682-troubleshooting-your-setup

You are correct that if you load a new stream into the player to replace an expired stream, the video will start play at the beginning. If you would like to submit a ticket via support with a page link, and tell me more about what you are trying to do, I would be happy to take a closer look and make recommendations.

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