I am developing an application for my AppleTV. The App will read movies from an online website that hasn't developed any API for this kind of thing.
I use XMLHTTPRequest to get the different URLs and have the user search for his movie, etc... Everything is working fine, except for a single request. To get the movie URL, I have to send a get request to a specific address (let's say http://example.com/getmovie.html) with a constant cookie (let's say mycookie=cookie).
I've tried using setRequestHeader:
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("GET", url, false);
xhr.withCredentials = true;
xhr.setRequestHeader('Cookie', 'mycookie=cookie');
xhr.send();
But no cookie seems to be sent. I also tried setting the cookie with Document.cookie like I would have probably done in a "normal" js script (running in my browser) but no luck either.
This is extremely frustrating, especially since I'm stuck so close to the end of my app.
I guess cross-origin might be the issue but I'm able to get URLs without issues if I don't have to set cookies, so I am a bit lost there.
Please let me know how I can get http://example.com/getmovie.html with a specific cookie header.
Thanks for your help
im sorry to inform you but the xmlHTTPRequest function of javascript does not allow a cookie header to be set for security reasons as shown here: Why cookies and set-cookie headers can't be set while making xmlhttprequest using setRequestHeader? the best way i could see you making that get request would be to a proxy server that you would be running. I believe that it is built this way to prevent you from setting cookies on domains that you do not own, furthermore i do not see an alternate resolution to this problem as no were in the docs i looked at was cookie persistence or management mentioned