[Icecast] EROR connection/_handle_connection Wrong request type > from client

[Philipp Schafft]

Good morning,

On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 18:11 -0700, Damian wrote:
> Thanks for clarifying that Philipp.
> 
> Yeah, I compared the time stamps in the error.log and access.log (below)
> and saw the corresponding HEAD requests. I've been getting a lot of
> these so I thought that there was something I could do to allow these
> clients to connect to the stream.

The HEAD requests are basically: Hello, what are you?
They would not result in a connect to the stream anyway, the answer
would just be 'Audio/Video data!'.

I also think that for playing media streams they add more trouble than
they are worth (Hint to developers: They only add race conditions.)

> I guess I just need to ignore them.

Yes. That's the only option you have as a server operator.

I'm glad my answerer helped you.

With best regards,


> Snippet from error.log
> [2018-05-04  00:28:17] EROR connection/_handle_connection Wrong request
> type from client
> [2018-05-04  00:28:17] EROR connection/_handle_connection Wrong request
> type from client
> 
> Snippet for access log
> 158.69.38.195 - - [04/May/2018:00:28:17 +1000] "HEAD /Systrum HTTP/1.1"
> 400 336 "-" "curl/7.29.0" 0
> 158.69.38.195 - - [04/May/2018:00:28:17 +1000] "HEAD /Systrum HTTP/1.1"
> 400 336 "-" "curl/7.29.0" 0
> 
> 
> > 
> > This is correct. Some listen clients try a HEAD request first (most of
> > no good reason). You can also see the requests in your access log.
> > 
> > Look for lines like this:
> > 
> > 127.0.0.1 - - [02/May/2018:12:17:08 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 400 430
> > "-" "Wget/1.18 (linux-gnu)" 0


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