ReactPlayer with redirected livestrem urls don't work

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Bringing up, ReactPlayer doesn't seem to follow redirects, for example: Livestream redirect https://lb.ims-cdn.net/redirect/live/live_ims_27863_01?type=m3u8

tested with "react-player": "^2.13.0",

also tested in demo page here by providing the URL there: https://cookpete.com/react-player/

this issue is kind of a duplicate issue (https://github.com/cookpete/react-player/issues/86) of which assumingly was resolved at 2016, however examples above seem to prove that it's still an issue.

Reading through react-player change logs couldn't identify parts that would resolve it. So unless 2.16 has something done about it, the issue persists.