[icecast-dev] Missing headers in Icecast2

[Brendan Cully]

On Sunday, 07 December 2003 at 21:41, oddsock wrote:
> At 01:19 PM 12/8/2003 +1100, you wrote:
> >On Saturday 06 December 2003 17:12, Macsym wrote:
> >> Hi Karl,
> >> if (client_wants_content_length (con))
> >>           sock_write (con->sock, "Cache-Control: no-cache\r\nPragma:
> >> no-cache\r\nConnection: close\r\nContent-Length: 54000000\r\n");
> >
> >After some discussion off-list with Jack:
> >
> >This is done for compatibility with broken clients (including IE, and
> >presumably flash-in-IE). Upsides: it sort of works. Downsides: it has a 
> >fixed
> >content-length, so the client will terminate after a finite period of time.
> >It needs to be reasonably small, because the same broken clients 
> >pre-buffer a
> >fixed percentage of the stream (so making it essentially infinite in 
> >length,
> >such that the client never terminates, isn't an option).
> >
> >We should do this (based on User-Agent, once we have a list of fucked 
> >clients)
> >in icecast2.
> 
> I strongly disagree...A solution that terminates a listener abruptly at a 
> fixed content length seems like an incredibly bad solution.  Adding this 
> kind of interoperability decreases the chances that broken clients will 
> ever be fixed.

Frankly I doubt that icecast will have much of an effect on the
short-term development of Flash or IE. We're much more likely to just
seem incompatible if we don't support the big-name clients. As long as
the content-length header is only sent to clients in a blacklist, I
think it's a good idea.
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