[rtmpdump] [PATCH] HTTP Proxy Support

[Howard Chu]

Daniel Burr wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The attached patch adds the ability to specify a HTTP proxy to be used
> for RTMPT.  This functionally requires only 2 changes:
> 1.  The hostname/port of the proxy needs to be used when establishing
> the connection instead of connecting directly to the target server.
> 2.  The POST request needs to specify the full absolute URL (i.e. server
> name and path name) instead of just the relative path name.
> Theoretically this should not be necessary because the proxy should use
> the hostname from the "Host:" header, but it seems that in practice this
> field is not honoured by at least some proxy implementations
> (e.g.Sun-Java-System-Web-Proxy-Server/4.0).
>
> The remainder of the changes in the patch are to:
> 1.  Add a new command line argument (--http) to rtmpdump and rtmpgw to
> allow the HTTP proxy to be specified.
> 2.  Add a new struct (RTMPSockInfo) which is used to store target
> server, SOCKS proxy and HTTP proxy information so that they can be
> easily treated in a generic fashion.

Thanks, I've been thinking we need this functionality for a while. But, for 
compatibility with other apps like wget and curl, you should have just used 
getenv("http_proxy") for the proxy server info in librtmp. I guess adding an 
option for rtmpdump may be useful, but at this point rtmpdump's importance is 
greatly diminished now that ffmpeg and curl support librtmp.