[FFmpeg-devel] [rfc] merge the applehttp-urlprotocol into main

[Tomas Härdin]

aviad rozenhek skrev 2011-02-28 11:39:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 00:40, Martin Storsj?<martin at martin.st>  wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Luca Barbato wrote:
>>
>>> - append "http://" so the url shouldn't be applehttp://http://
>>
>> I'm undecided about this. The applehttp://http:// URLs sure do look ugly,
>> but without that, how would you specify to play a stream of this kind from
>> a local file?
>>
>>
> we could parse the *inner *url again to see if it has a protocol specifier,
> and assume http if it doesnt [instead of assuming a file]
> therefore this url
> applehttp://xx.yy.zz.ww/abc/
>              ----------------
>              inner url part
>
> will be parsed as applehttp://http://xx.yy.zz.ww/abc/
> while file urls can be specified explicitly, as in
> applehttp://file://usr/files/myfile.m3u8
>              ----------------------------
>              inner url part

You can't nest URIs like that - please read RFC 3986 ( 
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt ).

A better solution IMO would be to go the svn+ssh route - a plus sign. So 
applehttp+file:/foo/bar/playlist.m3u8 for instance.

/Tomas