[Icecast] Re: Question about HTTP headers and Icecast stream status

[Chris Nighswonger]

Can anyone verify this for me?

Thanks

On 4/13/07, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
> Hi all,
>  I'm working on a script to check the status of streams from multiple
> streaming sources (ie. icecast, shoutcast, wms, etc.). With Icecast I
> am looking at the HTTP header returned by the server when I do a GET
> on the mountpoint I want the status of. It appears that a HTTP/1.0 200
> indicates that the mountpoint is up while a HTTP/1.0 404 indicates
> that it is down.
>  Two questions:
>
> 1. Is this correct?
> 2. Does Icecast return a different value when the mountpoint is up,
> but has no audio (data)?
>
>  If the answer to #2 is 'no' then how hard would it be to hack the
> code to do this?
>
>  I want to be able to indicate three conditions concerning the stream
> status: up with audio, up w/o audio, and down (no source).
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>