Hello. More and more sites nowadays forbid access to direct requests to the SWF file (HTTP error 403 forbidden) by checking the Referer header. Currently, rtmpdump lacks a way to circumvent this restriction, so in order to get the stream we have to use the old way of computing manualy the hash of the SWF file and pass it to the program. Is anyone interested in adding a "send custom header(s)" functionality to rtmpdump? Note to any aspiring developer: In order to make sure that the SWF file can be accessed in all possible cases, the option (let's say "-H") should be able to be specified more than once in the command line. i.e. rtmpdump -r someserver -W http://location/file.swf -H "Referer: http://www.blah.com/" -H "User Agent: Mozilla 5/0" ..... Regards.