[FFmpeg-devel] RTSP over HTTP tunnel authentication

[Stas Oskin]

>
> > This the exact behavior I seen with other RTSP implementations, notably
> > Live555. They typically re-use the auth header for POST as well. As in
> > FFMPEG it pretty tricky to get the priv_data->buffer outside, copying the
> > auth_state was the next best alternative as FFMPEG auth routines would
> > calculate exactly same header.
>
> Reusing the auth header only works for basic auth. For digest auth, it's
> just plain wrong.
>
>

Admitting,  I haven't dig so far in Live555 code to see if it re-calculates
the auth every time, but rather base observation on sniffed traffic, so I
might be wrong here.