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

[Tomas Härdin]

Hi

While debugging problems with lavf communicating with libmicrohttpd (aka
MHD) I discovered that seeking in a resource on a server based on that
library doesn't work. Note that MHD uses chunked encoding when streaming
data out of it (to lavf in this case).

The problem is that http_seek() calls http_open_cnx(), which in turn
calls http_connect() with chunksize >= 0 (since chunked encoding was
detected when it connected). This in turn causes the headers to be sent
using chunked encoding due to the call to http_write() on line 282,
which obviously is bogus.

Attached is a patch that changes http_connect() to not rely on this
behavior of http_write(). http_write() instead always uses chunked
encoding, while http_connect() simply uses url_write().

/Tomas
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