fix: add widevine request retry logic to work around ratelimits #47

ddirty830 · 2025-08-17T17:45:39Z

ddirty830 commented

2025-08-17 17:45:39 +00:00

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I've noticed every once in a while I'd received an error Unable to parse license on DRM'd content.
I dug a little and found that the WideVine requests were getting a CloudFlare rate limit bounce back, so I've added some retry logic to the Widevine HttpUtil methods to attempt to retry when that occurs.

It's not perfect, since CloudFlare doesn't respond with a retry-after header in their response, so it's just arbitrary 10 second delays increasing to 20, an then 30 for subsequent retries. It'll only retry 3 times, and then throw an error.

I've noticed every once in a while I'd received an error `Unable to parse license` on DRM'd content. I dug a little and found that the WideVine requests were getting a CloudFlare rate limit bounce back, so I've added some retry logic to the Widevine HttpUtil methods to attempt to retry when that occurs. It's not perfect, since CloudFlare doesn't respond with a `retry-after` header in their response, so it's just arbitrary 10 second delays increasing to 20, an then 30 for subsequent retries. It'll only retry 3 times, and then throw an error.

ddirty830 added 1 commit 2025-08-17 17:45:40 +00:00

fix: add widevine request retry logic to work around ratelimits 2c8dbb04ed

ddirty830 requested review from sim0n00ps 2025-08-18 00:48:52 +00:00

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Reference: sim0n00ps/OF-DL#47