I am streaming files with a CloudFront web distribution on top of a S3 storage containing private files (CloudFront has access to it). I use AWS WAF to validate if the request comes from my domain (with the referer header) to avoid direct download of the audio file with a simple copy-paste of its URL. To play the audio files, I use SoundManager2.
The problem: it works like a charm on desktop browsers (Chrome, Firefox and Safari), but the stream never start playing on mobile (tested on iOs and Android). I can't get why.
**General**
Request URL:https://XXXXXXXXX.cloudfront.net/uploads/track/s3_file/XXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXX.mp3
Request Method:GET
Status Code:206 Partial Content
Remote Address:XX.XX.XXX.X:XXX
**Response Headers**
Accept-Ranges:bytes
Age:9230
Cache-Control:max-age=31536000
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:2
Content-Range:bytes 0-1/4958188
Content-Type:audio/mp3
Date:Wed, 20 Apr 2016 11:35:09 GMT
ETag:"3f90ed8fa62501906107380830996ae9"
Last-Modified:Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:05:16 GMT
Server:AmazonS3
Via:1.1 70801f007508df9ad04c63e7be99eab2.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
X-Amz-Cf-Id:e-MSj2EuajyCKG8ah8f5WzjqQxymLfCeGaH5q6AMgt7T42u7wFKGig==
X-Cache:Hit from cloudfront
**Request Headers**
Accept:*/*
Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8,fr;q=0.6
Cache-Control:no-cache
Connection:keep-alive
Host:XXXXXXXXXX.cloudfront.net
Pragma:no-cache
Range:bytes=0-1
Referer:http://www.domain.com/this-is-a-playlist/other-lives-tamer-animals
Save-Data:on
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.1.1; A0001 Build/LMY48Y) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.105 Mobile Safari/537.36
On the web version, SoundManager2 sends this first request and cancel it:
**General**
Request URL:https://XXXXXXXX.cloudfront.net/uploads/track/s3_file/XXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXX.mp3
**Request Headers**
Provisional headers are shown
Accept-Encoding:identity;q=1, *;q=0
Range:bytes=0-
Referer:http://www.domain.com/this-is-a-playlist/other-lives-tamer-animals
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36
Then this request goes right after the above:
**General**
Request URL:https://XXXXXXXXXXX.cloudfront.net/uploads/track/s3_file/XXX/XXXXXXXXXX.mp3
Request Method:GET
Status Code:206 Partial Content
Remote Address:XX.XX.XXX.XXX:XXX
**Response Headers**
view source
Accept-Ranges:bytes
Age:168539
Cache-Control:max-age=31536000
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:4958188
Content-Range:bytes 0-4958187/4958188
Content-Type:audio/mp3
Date:Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:35:12 GMT
ETag:"3f90ed8fa62501906107380830996ae9"
Last-Modified:Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:05:16 GMT
Server:AmazonS3
Via:1.1 c035b03e455c334ee837503784ad41c8.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
X-Amz-Cf-Id:bE3BNkkvWJ08qwcsRT-3TIvHs6dXT-QIJ8UP6kl3vQVg89LaiO1Npg==
X-Cache:Hit from cloudfront
**Request Headers**
view source
Accept:*/*
Accept-Encoding:identity;q=1, *;q=0
Accept-Language:fr,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6
Cache-Control:no-cache
Connection:keep-alive
Host:XXXXXXXXXXX.cloudfront.net
Pragma:no-cache
Range:bytes=0-
Referer:http://www.domain.com/this-is-a-playlist/other-lives-tamer-animals
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36
On mobile, SoundManager2 reaches the playing status in the logs, but now music is played. Do anyone get why the stream doesn't start on mobile???
