[vlc-devel] Network functions for use in a module

[Alexander Adolf]

Dear Rémi,

On 2014-02-18, at 23:01 , Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:

> Le mardi 18 février 2014, 22:46:59 Alexander Adolf a écrit :
>> Is there any prior art in the VLC tree I could use?
>> 
>> There is a HTTP client in modules/access/http.c. How would I use that from
>> my own module?
> 
> If you do not need custom headers, you can use stream_UrlNew() and friends 
> from <vlc_stream.h>. There are already a bunch of examples in the code.
> 
> If however you need custom headers, there is no helper yet, though someone is 
> working on it.

Many thanks for the pointer. I'll check that out. I don't need custom headers, btw.

> For a DNS request, I'll likely nee to roll my own?
> 
> So far VLC only makes "normal" A/AAAA queries, using getaddrinfo(). But I 
> infer you want another RR type? In that case, I would advise trying 
> res_search() from <resolv.h> but it might be cumbersome. Otherwise use a 
> dedicated DNS library, like c-ares.
> [...]

Sorry for creating confusion. Just realised that DNS SD is a well known acronym for a part of Bonjour/Zeroconf.

I want to query DNS for an SRV record.


Many thanks and cheers,

  --alexander