[vlc-devel] [PATCH 2/2] chromecast: don't close the client connection

[Pierre Ynard]

> I don't know the other exotic systems (OS/2?) but it seems to be a
> general case where keepalive is portable and unpriviledged but the
> user timeout a bit more specific and tedious. Since we also emulate
> the timeout in the httpd server, it could be one solution to tackle
> this kind of limitation, though when exactly we would want to enable
> this is quite unclear to me right now.

Logically, you'd want to add it to the patch: if you're aiming for
compatibility with the Chromecast client, at the same time that you're
raising/removing the HTTPd inactivity timeout on new clients, you should
also check and attempt to set the TCP timeout on their socket to ensure
it has a sufficiently high value; otherwise you risk still hitting the
TCP timeout, and only having a partial fix for the best cases.

Apparently there are 4 separate tickets open for this issue, and it
seems to predate the current regression.

-- 
Pierre Ynard
"Une âme dans un corps, c'est comme un dessin sur une feuille de papier."