[Icecast-dev] 206 response for Chrome Mobile

[Byron Young]

Doesn't the missing "Accept-Ranges" in response inform the client to
resend the request without Range:?

I think only the file server would serve partial content in this way, as
the streaming server implies partial content as part of its protocol.

Anyway, the response seems as requested. 0 (empty) or 1 bytes partial
content was requested, and empty response returned.

On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 17:39 -0800, Andrew Akers wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> I'm using Icecast to stream some audio that I embed in an <audio> tag
> on a webpage. This is working great for desktop browsers and on iOS,
> but it doesn't work on Android.
> 
> It looks like Chrome mobile sends the header "Range: bytes=0-1" and
> then doesn't try to load any more data when Icecast responds with a 0
> byte "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" response. From my reading of the HTTP spec, it
> looks like there's two options here: either ignore the range header
> entirely, or return a 206 response along with headers indicating the
> kinds of range responses we can deal with. Here, it doesn't look like
> Icecast does either.
> 
> The headers:
> Request:
> GET /mount.mp3 HTTP/1.1
> Host: host:8000
> Connection: keep-alive
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5X Build/MDB08L)
> AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.76 Mobile
> Safari/537.36
> Accept: */*
> Referer: https://host/
> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
> Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
> Range: bytes=0-1
> 
> Response:
> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> Server: Icecast 2.4.2
> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 01:23:11 GMT
> Content-Type: audio/mpeg
> Cache-Control: no-cache
> Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
> Pragma: no-cache
> Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
> icy-br: 32
> ice-audio-info: bitrate=32;channels=1;samplerate=44100
> icy-description: Description
> icy-genre: None
> icy-name: mount
> icy-pub: 0
> icy-url: https://host/
> 
> Is there a quick patch to disable range support, or a place you can
> point me to in the code that might be causing this behavior?
> ______
> Andrew Akers
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