[FFmpeg-devel] Location header to be ignored with status code 200 (and others)

Carl Eugen Hoyos ceffmpeg at gmail.com
Tue Oct 1 14:09:38 EEST 2019


Am Di., 1. Okt. 2019 um 10:32 Uhr schrieb Armin Hasitzka <armin at grabyo.com>:

> sorry for dumping this here with HTML formatting (haven't yet figured out
> how to turn it off in Gmail); we ran into a weird HLS playlist today that
> sends a malformed location header together with a 200 status code (which is
> a misconfiguration on a client's system but cannot be changed). A quick dig
> shows that location headers are to be ignored in combination with anything
> else but a 201 or 3xx (
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Location) thus we
> patched our FFmpeg version as attached.

> We further believe that this patch should be applied to FFmpeg for
> everyone - please let us know what you think.

Please use git format-patch to produce a patch that can be committed
with git am.

Carl Eugen


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