title: Logging requests of HLS stream segment in connected iOS Safari
body: <p>I am trying to debug my web based HLS player (with HTML5  tag) and would like to monitor the network request to fetch the segments of the stream. This works fine in all desktop browsers (safari, chrome, firefox), and works with the OSX Safari, as well.</p>
  
  <p>But when I connect to a iOS Safari (Simulator or real iPhone), only the request of the m3u-file shows up in the network monitor, not the requests to the segments of the stream.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to monitor those requests on iOS Safari?</p>
  
  <p>The reason I want to do this is trying to avoid automatic loading of segments while the player is paused/stopped. This works fine with hls.js, but I am not sure how iOS Safari handles the preload=none attribute. Although <a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/Using_HTML5_Audio_Video/AudioandVideoTagBasics/AudioandVideoTagBasics.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here Apple says that "Safari on iOS never preloads"</a>, this does not seem to be true when pausing the player. (see <a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkitjs/htmlmediaelement/1633059-preload" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkitjs/htmlmediaelement/1633059-preload</a>, too)</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>
  
  <p>P.S.: I tried to get any information in Apple's forums before, unfortunately without any success (<a href="https://discussions.apple.com/message/32027089#32027089" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://discussions.apple.com/message/32027089#32027089</a>).</p>