[Icecast] Source client with HTTP PUT

[Fred Gleason]

 On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 12:24 -0400, Fred Gleason wrote:

> Don't use PUT at all. Instead, open a TCP socket connection to the port
> that the server is running on, write all of your headers to that
> (terminating each one with a CR/LF), send a naked CR/LF to tell Icecast
> that your done sending headers and then start writing content.


On May 4, 2019, at 09:15, Philipp Schafft <phschafft at de.loewenfelsen.net> wrote:

> ***Please don't.*** This is the worst way if implementing source
> clients. And there are already too many broken ones.

As a general principle, I quite agree with you. In this specific case however, given the fact that libshout is missing certain bits —e.g. support for AAC+ — sometimes one has no choice.

Cheers!


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