[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Fix seeking HTTP when server uses chunked encoding

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje at gmail.com> wrote:
> On , 19 Jun 2010, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
>> As far as I understand the issue, it's not specifiec to microhttpd, but to
>> any server that serves normal content using chunked encoding. Most common
>> http servers doesn't do that, but it's fully allowed if the client does
>> the request using HTTP/1.1.
>
> Content is not chunked. Content-Range is missing, indicating the server does
> not support seeking. Not sure why it hangs afterwards, but the failure to
> seek is expected.

The hang is likely a bug elsewhere, it happens only for some demuxers
(ASF), not others (RM). We can look into that, but anyway... The
microlibhttpd server simply doesn't support seeking, so the behaviour
of http.c is correct. I've added some checks to make sure it handles
switching between chunked/non-chunked encoding (Thomas said that was
an issue), but other than that, I don't think there's a bug here.

Ronald