[MPlayer-dev-eng] Problem: http auth and asx playlist

Felix Buenemann atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Jul 11 16:46:41 CEST 2002


On Tuesday 09 July 2002 10:17, Bertrand Baudet wrote:
> On Sunday 07 July 2002 11:58 pm, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> > On Monday 08 July 2002 07:33, Bertrand Baudet wrote:
> > > On Sunday 07 July 2002 09:05 pm, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > there's a problem with the HTTP auth, when trying to playback asx
> > > > playlist, as it doesn't pass on the user/pass to the playlist urls.
> > > >
> > > > Here's an example:
> > > > mplayer -cache 512 -bandwidth 768000 -user blah -passwd blub -v -v
> > > > http://www.server.com/movies/some.asx
> > > >
> > > > Now mplayer will connect with auth and get the header, then it detect
> > > > asx miemtype and reconnects with auth (only after my last fix),
> > > > faking wmp request headers.
> > > >
> > > > Then it parses the asx playlist and begins to play the mms-url from
> > > > it, but on this request it is not sending the needed auth, as
> > > > specified as global parms before!
> > > >
> > > > Bertrand, can you fix this? I wasn't yet able to track this down.
> > >
> > > I had a quick look and it didn't pop-up to me, since your fix it's what
> > > I would have done. So I will have to setup a windows box to reproduce
> > > it. Before I do that, can you send me a output log of what you get? (In
> > > private if necessary)
> >
> > I have found the bug:
> > look at asf_streaming.c:555 in function asf_http_parse_response
> > it does only check if response is 200, all other cases will fail, so does
> > 401 case.
> > So my questions, why are you using this crippled down code for asf,
> > instead of the original HTTP code from network.c?
>
> Ok, should be fixed. Can you test it please, I don't have a server setup
> with authentication for asf stream.
sorry to let you wait, but the server I used for testing has gone (well the 
account I used was deleted ;), so I'll have to wait till I find a similar 
server until I can test.

> Bertrand

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        Atmos
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