[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libavformat: Fix decetion of range support in HTTP servers

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 05:23:04PM +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> currently libavformat only allows seeking if a request with "Range: 
> 0-" results in a 206 reply from the HTTP server which includes a 
> Content-Range header. But according to RFC 2616, the server may also 
> reply with a normal 200 reply (which is more efficient for a request 
> for the whole file). In fact Apache HTTPD 2.2.20 has changed the 
> behaviour in this way and it looks like this change will be kept in 
> future versions. The fix for libavformat is easy: Also look at the 
> Accept-Ranges header.
> 
> There is some discussion at 
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-
> dev/201109.mbox/%3C4E5EDBA3.1030703 at rowe-clan.net%3E in case you are 
> interested.

patch applied, thanks


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