[vlc-devel] 0.9.2 SAP

Mirsal Ennaime mirsal.ennaime at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 17:55:38 CEST 2008


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Marian Ďurkovič <md at bts.sk> wrote:
> Sure, VLC should never generate non-compliant SDPs, but the basic Internet
> principles apply here as well:
>
>
> Robustness Principle
>
>         At every layer of the protocols, there is a general rule whose
>         application can lead to enormous benefits in robustness and
>         interoperability [IP:1]:
>
>                "Be liberal in what you accept, and
>                 conservative in what you send"

+1

That's something I painfully discovered when writing the UPnP media
server module this summer.
Moreover, many people use VLC because of that kind of behaviour (Well,
at least the "be liberal in what you accept" thing) applied to other
domains,

my 2cents

-- 
Mirsal Ennaime


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