[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] avformat/http: exponentially delay reconnection to avoid flooding the server

[Michael Niedermayer]

From: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>

Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
---
 libavformat/http.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libavformat/http.c b/libavformat/http.c
index aa60aef..126c7b3 100644
--- a/libavformat/http.c
+++ b/libavformat/http.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include "libavutil/avassert.h"
 #include "libavutil/avstring.h"
 #include "libavutil/opt.h"
+#include "libavutil/time.h"
 
 #include "avformat.h"
 #include "http.h"
@@ -107,6 +108,7 @@ typedef struct HTTPContext {
     int reconnect;
     int reconnect_at_eof;
     int reconnect_streamed;
+    int reconnect_delay;
     int listen;
     char *resource;
     int reply_code;
@@ -1249,6 +1251,8 @@ static int http_read_stream(URLContext *h, uint8_t *buf, int size)
         || (read_ret == 0 && s->reconnect_at_eof && (!h->is_streamed || s->reconnect_streamed))) {
         int64_t target = h->is_streamed ? 0 : s->off;
         av_log(h, AV_LOG_INFO, "Will reconnect at %"PRId64" error=%s.\n", s->off, av_err2str(read_ret));
+        av_usleep(1000U*1000*s->reconnect_delay);
+        s->reconnect_delay = 1 + 2*s->reconnect_delay;
         seek_ret = http_seek_internal(h, target, SEEK_SET, 1);
         if (seek_ret != target) {
             av_log(h, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Failed to reconnect at %"PRId64".\n", target);
@@ -1256,7 +1260,8 @@ static int http_read_stream(URLContext *h, uint8_t *buf, int size)
         }
 
         read_ret = http_buf_read(h, buf, size);
-    }
+    } else
+        s->reconnect_delay = 0;
 
     return read_ret;
 }
-- 
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