How to send custom headers or authenticate Chromecast - android

I'm developing a video application with HLS streams.
These streams can only be played if I send in the request https custom headers.
On iOS I do like this:
NSMutableDictionary* headers = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
[headers setObject:#"MY_VALUE" forKey:#"MY_KEY"];
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DefaultHttpDataSource.Factory MGSource = new DefaultHttpDataSourceFactory(Util.getUserAgent( MainActivity.getContext(), "MY_USER_AGENT"), BANDWIDTH_METER);
MGSource.getDefaultRequestProperties().set("MY_KEY", "MY_VALUE");
and these methods work very well.
And I want to send these feeds on a ChromeCast.
So I look at how to do on Google Doc and they say this in receiver :
in this function :
sampleplayer.CastPlayer.prototype.loadVideo_ = function(info) {
this.log_('loadVideo_');
var self = this;
var protocolFunc = null;
var url = info.message.media.contentId;
...
host.updateSegmentRequestInfo = function(requestInfo) {
// example of setting CORS withCredentials
requestInfo.withCredentials = true;
// example of setting headers
//requestInfo.headers = {};
//requestInfo.headers['content-type'] = 'text/xml;charset=utf-8';
requestInfo.headers['MY_KEY'] = 'MY_VALUE';
console.log("################# SENDING HEADERS");
};
host.updateManifestRequestInfo = function(requestInfo) {
if (!requestInfo.url) {
requestInfo.url = this.url;
}
requestInfo.withCredentials = true;
};
host.updateLicenseRequestInfo = function(requestInfo) {
requestInfo.withCredentials = true;
};
But that does not work, can someone tell me how I can send custom headers in a URL to a ChromeCast.
Either in the Android sender or in the receiver.
thank you so much

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