[rtmpdump] r108 - in trunk: Makefile log.h rtmpsrv.c

[Howard Chu]

hyc wrote:
> Author: hyc
> Date: Tue Dec 22 07:10:37 2009
> New Revision: 108
>
> Log:
> Add dummy RTMP server. Doesn't serve any data, just sucks up
> connection parameters from a client.
>
> Added:
>     trunk/rtmpsrv.c
> Modified:
>     trunk/Makefile
>     trunk/log.h

This started as a copy of streams.c and then I ripped out all the HTTP code 
and added in all the RTMP server side handling. I had originally planned to 
write a complete transparent proxy, but I'm not sure that's really necessary 
at this point.

All you need to do is redirect your Flash clients to the machine running this 
server and it will dump out all the connect / play parameters that the Flash 
client sent. The simplest way to cause the redirect is by editing /etc/hosts 
when you know the hostname of the RTMP server, and point it to localhost while 
running rtmpsrv on your machine.

The other way on Linux is to use iptables to redirect all outbound RTMP 
connections. You can do this as root:

iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -j REDIRECT

In my original plan I would have the transparent proxy running as a special 
user (e.g. user "proxy"), and regular flash clients running as any other user. 
In that case the proxy would make the connection to the real RTMP server. The 
iptables rule would look like this:

iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -m owner \! --uid-owner proxy -j 
REDIRECT

That should give you some idea of where to go from here.
   -- hyc