Situation: I have a large set of videos and images and small Play applications, which stores references to the blobs in DB. For web usage that's OK, I'm rendering page, where I put Flowplayer and in it's config I'm using direct blob's path as a source video. Anyway I was asked for additional possibility for other older devices - which should send the file in the response body directly with headers:
Content-Type:video/mp4
Content-disposition:inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding:binary
Originally that solution was done with PHP script, which fetched the blob to the server with the CURL and returned as a response to the client with manipulated header.
Question: What is the best way to do that job with Play? (preferably without downloading file to the server). Blobs will be public, so I don't need to care about hiding original paths, I just need to add headers mentioned above.
- Should I use
WS.url()to fetch the file to the server and send it as aResultwith modified headers? I tried this, but had some problems withWStimeouts. - Also tried to set the header
Content-Location:http//mystorage..., anyway as I understood it requires file in the response body anyway. So maybe there is some other technique with usage of the headers only. - Is there any way to force custom headers while returning direct blob (ie. by setting it in the GET params) ?
Maybe some quite other approach?
