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thomasferraro
Binge Watcher
5 years ago
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Trouble with tweaking AudioListExample's audiolistscene.xml source URL

Beginning Roku developer here. I am working on tweaking AudioListExample (https://github.com/rokudev/samples/tree/master/media/AudioListExample). In audiolistscene.xml, I simply want to have       ...
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    renojim
    5 years ago

    For reasons no one will ever understand, Roku requires additional setup to handle HTTPS.  If you can change your URL to http://... just to test, do that.  To get the HTTPS URL to work you have to add code to contentreader.xml:

    readInternet = createObject("roUrlTransfer")
readInternet.setUrl(m.top.contenturi)
readInternet.SetCertificatesFile("common:/certs/ca-bundle.crt")
readInternet.InitClientCertificates()
...
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renojim
Community Streaming Expert
5 years ago

For reasons no one will ever understand, Roku requires additional setup to handle HTTPS.  If you can change your URL to http://... just to test, do that.  To get the HTTPS URL to work you have to add code to contentreader.xml:

readInternet = createObject("roUrlTransfer")
readInternet.setUrl(m.top.contenturi)
readInternet.SetCertificatesFile("common:/certs/ca-bundle.crt")
readInternet.InitClientCertificates()
...
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thomasferraro
Binge Watcher
5 years ago

Works like a charm. Thanks so much. Never would have figured that out on my own.