[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] protocol names should not be case sensitive

[Ulion]

2007/12/12, iber at physics.rutgers.edu <iber at physics.rutgers.edu>:
> Hello,
>
> Currently, mplayer thinks that protocol names should all be lower case.
> There's no strict requirement specified in any standard (as far as I
> know), and at least one website I know breaks mplayer by using
> capitalized URLs.
>
> Bug behavior: give mplayer a url where the protocol name is capitalized,
> and it will break. For example:
>
>
> --------------------
> ilya at aldan:/opt/src/mplayer/mplayer> mplayer
> HTTP://www.wnyc.org/stream/fm.pls
> MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ (Family: 6, Model: 10, Stepping: 0)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE
>
> Playing HTTP://www.wnyc.org/stream/fm.pls.
> No stream found to handle url HTTP://www.wnyc.org/stream/fm.pls
>
>
> Exiting... (End of file)
> -------------------
>
> The fix is attached.

Protocol name indeed is case-insensitive, this should be fixed, anyone
care about this?
If there's no objection, I will apply this patch (without the comment
in it) in 2 days.

-- 
Ulion