[icecast] Icecast in Macromedia Flash

[assorgia at tin.it]

> Thanks for the network dumps. As you say, it's weird because Flash, even
> when embedded, can access the stream of Icecast2. I already noticed it by
> analyzing Icecast2's logs as I wrote in the first message of this topic.
> There is something I couldn't see in the network dumps: is the embedded
> flash DOWNLOADING the stream even if it doesn't play it (with Icecast2)?

I don't know if flash is downloading but icecast is sending data for 
sure.

<p>I've tried to strip some useful information from the dumps,
Here's the little talk between the client and the server.

Keep in mind that when running in embedded mode flash uses the 
browser to send and receive data. Note that in sucessful tests 
using icecast 1.3 the client is receving different headers. 
maybe one of these is responsible of the failure.

I'll try installing mozilla and downloading the plug-in.

--------------- SUCCESSFUL 2.0 stand alone ----------------------
GET /live HTTP/1.1
Referer: http://192.168.0.242:8000/live
User-Agent: Shockwave Flash
Host: 192.168.0.242:8000

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: audio/mpeg
icy-bitrate:0
icy-description:publicvoice.fm online radio
icy-name:Streaming with MuSE
icy-public:1
icy-url:http://publicvoice.fm
Server: Icecast 2.0-alpha2/cvs
------------------------------------------------------------------

--------------- UNSUCCESSFUL 2.0 embedded ------------------------
GET /live HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
x-flash-version: 7,0,14,0
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Host: 192.168.0.242:8000

Connection: Keep-Alive
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: audio/mpeg
icy-bitrate:0
icy-description:publicvoice.fm online radio
icy-name:Streaming with MuSE
icy-public:1
icy-url:http://publicvoice.fm
Server: Icecast 2.0-alpha2/cvs
------------------------------------------------------------------

--------------- SUCCESSFUL 1.3.12 embedded -----------------------
GET /live HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
x-flash-version: 7,0,14,0
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Host: 192.168.0.242:8000
Connection: Keep-Alive
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: icecast/1.3.12
Content-Type: audio/mpeg
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Connection: close
Content-Length: 54000000
x-audiocast-location: Just west of Mars
x-audiocast-admin: kirk at enterprise.space
x-audiocast-server-url: http://www.icecast.org/
x-audiocast-mount:/live
x-audiocast-name:Streaming with MuSE
x-audiocast-description:publicvoice.fm online radio
x-audiocast-url:http://publicvoice.fm
x-audiocast-genre:icecast
x-audiocast-bitrate:0
x-audiocast-public:1
------------------------------------------------------------------
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