[MPlayer-dev-eng] 1.0rc3 release

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 04:52:26PM +0200, Francesco Cosoleto wrote:
> compn wrote:
> > setting this as default user agent
> > user-agent=WMPlayer/10.0.0.4058
> > would workaround this bug:
> > http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=1036
> 
> With the bug there is an infinite loop, involving a guiltless server too 
> (expect that it has bought software provided by Microsoft).

Guiltless? They serve two different things at the same URL,
distinguishing by the user-agent and use http:// in the playlist instead
of any of the more correct mss:// mmsh:// or mmshttp:// (not sure if WMP
supports all of those, but at least one should work), at the very least
it is a completely broken configuration, and I don't think they can even
blame that on Microsoft...

> A temporary patch that solves the problem putting "NSPlayer" (already 
> used for MMS) as user-agent if protocol is HTTP and URL ends with ".wmv" 
> or ".asf" would be welcome?

That would only work by chance though, the parameter string can contain
anything...
Note that it would also be easier to convince if someone can find other
servers with the same issue, any code would be too much for one server
on the whole internet, so to say...