[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] close connection on end-of-file

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Sun Mar 4 02:38:26 CET 2007


Hi

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:48:36PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as suggested earlier by Ryan (he took the effort to read the http specs
> more carefully, I just implemented it :-) ), The http request header
> property connection:close is needed for _some_ 1.1 HTTP servers to close
> the connection at the end of file. Servers can use this to do messaging
> between client and server over the same connection (think SOAP-style
> stuff). We obviously don't want that, we just want the data. Attached
> patch implements it and makes downloading some asx files from MS
> streaming servers work again (they would hang on eos).
> 
> Using the Content-Length property is not an option by the way, since
> those same MS streaming servers give a faulty Content-Length value, i.e.
> you only get half the file if you use that.

could you show the whole request-response from such a server, iam just 
curious ...

and iam fine with the patch

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