[icecast-dev] time out issues with icecast2

[Michael Smith]

On Friday 15 August 2003 10:15, Geoff Shang wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Arc wrote:
> > "Origional" Icecast (icecast1) uses ICY protocol for streaming, being
> > compatable with Shoutcast to the point that you can use a Shoutcast
> > client to connect to it.  The same is not true for Icecast2.
>
> This is not correct, or at least is not meant to be.  icecast2 is meant to
> be able to accept connections from ICY sources.  Some people, including
> myself, have experienced problems with this, but as the shoutcast protocol
> is undocumented, it's tricky to fix.  since this is the dev list, I'm sure
> the developers would welcome patches.

Yes, it's _meant_ to support this protocol, but it turned out that the 
protocol - though it superficially looks HTTP-like - is, in fact, very 
different (in quite crucial ways). So that support doesn't actually work for 
shoutcast sources. 

Fixing this requires quite a bit of work to abstract out the connection 
handling to not require/expect HTTP as the core protocol, and then adding 
support for the shoutcast protocol.

Mike

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