IPTV and User-Agent string

[mattj949]

There may already be an answer for this, and if so I apologize for asking if there is, but I couldn't find one.

I started using NPVR recently for IPTV and it works fantastic for the most part. I have a custom playlist with multiple providers.

Some of the providers I have require a User-Agent string with the requests (such as http://myprovider.tv/live/user/pass/9999.ts)

I sniffed what NPVR is requesting, and since there is no user-agent, so I get a 401 response from the provider.

If I run it through a proxy and rewrite the request to include a User-Agent string (from VLC for example) it works fine, but I don't want
to have to do that.

Is there a way to set the outgoing User-Agent string when requesting a stream?

Thank you.

[AgileHumor]

Has anyone found a workaround for the user agent issue? My legal m3u provider USTVNow requires it...and blocks the VLC user agent (just my luck) which is hardcoded in NextPVR.

I need it to be "'User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0'"..but hopefully this could be moved to a user-editable variable.

[sub]

What type of streams is USTVNow using? .ts or .m3u8?

[AgileHumor]

.m3u8 for the HD streams

[AgileHumor]

Screenshot of codec in Kodi