[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/3] libvlccore: Add STREAM_GET_HTTP_HEADER control

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le maanantaina 12. elokuuta 2019, 18.52.55 EEST Marvin Scholz a écrit :
> On 12 Aug 2019, at 17:49, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > Le maanantaina 12. elokuuta 2019, 18.45.59 EEST Marvin Scholz a écrit :
> >> On 12 Aug 2019, at 15:19, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> I think you're missing the point here. You can't just pass opaque data
> >>> through filters, and you don't control what header lines get sent or
> >>> when. This is the block flags discussion all over again. What you're
> >>> doing just isn't a good fit with the stream abstraction.
> >> 
> >> I don't see how this is related to block flags, this is stream level
> >> metadata and the http headers do not change
> >> mid-stream, do they?
> > 
> > Sure they do.
> 
> Oh, how? My understanding is that they are sent at the beginning of the
> response and do not change?

RTFS.

> How is it not generic? You give the stream filter a stream with icy metadata
> and the meta interval, it filters out the Icy metadata. That seems very
> generic to me.

How is it generic if it needs a special case in the backend for every use 
case?

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