[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Make stream support http redirect

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:40:19AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 08:41:34PM -0500, Compn wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 17:28:39 +0800, Ulion wrote:
> > >There's a reported bug http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=927
> > >The problem is the http module of stream will treat all redirect url
> > >as http protocol, so the redirected mms:// url is handled incorrectly.
> > >This patch give a chance to handle the redirected url in correct way.
> > >
> > >Just try ./mplayer -v http://swr3.streamlocator.de/
> > 
> > ignored? :)
> 
> Can someone confirm that http-redirects to e.g. mms or whatever are even
> valid?
> Even if, I very much dislike it, it means that a web site could redirect
> to e.g. cdda:// or other local URLs that can cause your PC to do all
> kinds of unexpected things.
> At the very least Roberto's -playlist patch should be applied and used
> here as well.

There's a serious need to distinguish between real public urls and
MPlayer's silly internal url scheme for local resources, disallowing
access to the latter except by extremely explicit user request. BTW
that issue is still open on the security list. Can someone fix and
close it??

Rich