Android MediaPlayer URL's with Cookie

Question

I have an android application that plays music from a site, however to authenticate to the stream, you need to send a cookie first I.E:

http://example.com/site/content?id=SOMEID = mp3 formatted stream

If you access the url without a cookie, you'll get a Server 500 error. If you have a cookie, then you'll get the stream.

For the life of me, I can't figure out how to make the mediaplayer play a URL while sending a cookie.

I can play any url that doesn't require a cookie, however.

Answer 1

As far as I can tell you can't. Almost everything MediaPlayer does is done in native code, including opening any connections, so there is no way to access the stream it is using AFAICT.