Thumbnails don't load if the Invidious instance is behind an HTTP login

[TheFrenchGhosty]

Behavior of the program

This is an issue I reported a while back in the matrix room, but since it still happening I'm reporting it here.

If the Invidious instance used is behind a basic http login ( https://username:password@domain.ext ) , thumbnails will be broken, everything else seems to be working.

Playlists thumbnails seems to work though.

Expected behavior

Thumbnails load.

To Reproduce

Go to settings.

Set the Invidious instance to an instance behind an http login ( https://username:password@domain.ext ).

Set the preferred API backend to Invidious.

Go to any page where thumbnail are shown.

Screenshots

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• FreeTube version: 0.9.0

Additional context

I can provide you an access to my instance for testing, just PM me on Matrix.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Hi @TheFrenchGhosty im wondering if this really is an issue worth solving for us because we only recommend using instances listed on https://api.invidious.io/

[TheFrenchGhosty]

@efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc This is an edge case that (mainly) affect my instance (used by a dozen or so people), I did provide an account to @PrestonN a while ago, and according to him:

"This might be a quick fix actually if I know the issue. May need to update the UI for it though."
"I think I found the issue. The thumbnails don't like having the login within the URL, so filtering them out seems to fix it."

It is worth solving in my opinion, even if it isn't a priority, because it should work (and seems to be a small bug).

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

@TheFrenchGhosty So this instance is like your private own instance right? Just curious are only the thumbnails of your videos not being loaded properly or is it also not possible for u to watch videos or search for videos?

[TheFrenchGhosty]

So this instance is like your private own instance right?

It's the PussTheCat.org instance.

Yeah, only the thumbnails don't load.

[Tha14]

I've made some progress by adding basic http authentication for fetch in both subscriptions and invidious API and it seems to be working great so far. However, I'm unable to figure out how to fix the thumbnail problem as the images are loaded by the browser and I don't believe that there is a way to authenticate those requests programmatically. Does anyone know if it's easy to request the images with fetch, store them in the cache and load them from there instead of the instance's url?

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